Class Action Alleges Advocate Aurora Failed To Obtain Patient’s Consent To Share Private Health Data A class action lawsuit was recently filed against Advocate Aurora Health Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. (Facebook) alleging that Aurora shared confidential Private Health Information (PHI) with Facebook through computer code embedded on Aurora Health’s websites and apps. Advocate Aurora…
OakBend Medical Center, a Richmond Texas based medical provider, announced that it was the target of a ransomware attack over the September Labor Day weekend. According to reports, the attack was first noticed on Sept 1st 2022 when files on its network were shown as encrypted. The IT infrastructure was immediately taken offline while authorities…
Latest Data Breach At Flagstar Bank Puts 1.5 Million Customers At Risk Of Identity Theft Flagstar Bank, a Michigan-based financial services provider and one of the largest banks in the United States, has recently begun notifying 1.5 million customers of a data breach that occurred during a December 2021 cyber attack. According to data breach…
Personal Identifying Information Involving 1.2 Million Patients Is At Risk For Identity Theft A class-action lawsuit was recently filed against Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and its affiliate, San Antonio, Texas-based Baptist Health System, over an April data breach that has affected 1.2 million patients. The lawsuit, filed in Dallas County, alleges that the health companies were…
Ransomware Attack Could Be One Of 2022’s Biggest Health Care Breaches A major ransomware attack on a little-known debt collection firm that serves hundreds of hospitals and medical facilities across the U.S. could be one of the biggest data breaches of personal and health information this year. The Greeley Colorado-based Professional Finance Company, known as…
Health Care Data Breach Exposes Personal Information Of Two Million People Two million people who sought care at 56 Shields Health Care Group partners across the New England region may have had their personal data exposed after the company’s network server was breached in March. This breach is the largest of the year in healthcare,…
A Pennsylvania woman has filed a class action lawsuit against Flo Health Inc., maker of the “Flo” app, for selling her private health information to third parties. The lawsuit seeks restitution for Plaintiff and Class members including (1) nominal damages of $1,000; (2) actual damages, if any; and (3) reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs. The…
