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Over 5.8 Million PharMerica Patients At Risk Of Identity Theft After Data Breach

Pharmacy services provider PharMerica has disclosed a massive data breach impacting over 5.8 million patients, exposing their personal and medical data to hackers. PharMerica is a pharmacy services provider in 50 U.S. states, operating 180 local and 70,000 backup pharmacies, and serving 3,100 medical facilities nationwide. Along with PharMerica, the threat actors listed BrightSpring, a…

NextGen Healthcare Sued For Exposing 1M Customers To Identity Theft

Lawsuit alleges NextGen failed to follow security guidelines for protecting data after the company said compromised credentials enabled unauthorized access to the personal information of more than 1 million people. NextGen Healthcare, which makes and sells software for medical and other healthcare providers, is the target of a federal lawsuit charging that it was negligent…

NationsBenefits Data Breach Exposes 3 Million To Identity Theft

Florida-based healthcare management company NationsBenefits suffered a significant cyber attack that compromised the sensitive personal information of millions of customers. A recently filed class action lawsuit alleges that inadequate network security at the Florida based healthcare management company made it easy for Clop ransomware gang to steal customer data. In a data security incident notice…

BetterHelp Betrayed Patients Trust In Pursuit Of Dollars

Another class action lawsuit was recently filed against BetterHelp after being hit with a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order banning the online counseling platform from sharing consumers’ data for advertising purposes. The case was filed days after the FTC said BetterHelp must not disclose consumers’ sensitive mental health data to third parties—including Facebook, Pinterest, Criteo…

Express Scripts Use Of Pixel Technology Relays Users Private Information To Facebook

A class action lawsuit was recently filed against Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits manager serving over 100 million Americas, alleging that it unlawfully relays confidential personal information directly to Facebook (Meta) without consent from the owner of the information. According to the lawsuit, Express Scripts uses Facebook’s Pixel spyware on its websites. This technology enables…

Healthcare Platform Cerebral Alerts 3.1 Million Users They Are At Risk Of Identity Theft

Numerous class action lawsuits were recently launched after Mental health application platform provider Cerebral disclosed it experienced a data breach affecting around 3.17 million users. According to the lawsuit, data was leaked to third parties via a tracking pixel’s data logging feature. Cerebral estimates the data was leaked to third parties from October 12, 2019…

Data Breach At Independent Living Systems Exposes 4 Million To Identity Theft

Independent Living Systems (“ILS”), a Miami, FL-based provider of third-party administrative services to managed care organizations, was recently hit with a lawsuit after informing the Maine Attorney General that it suffered a data breach that has affected up to 4,226,508 individuals – the largest healthcare data breach to be reported so far this year.  When Did…

Regal Medical Group Ransomware Attack Nets Cyber Criminals Over 3 Million Medical Records

A class action complaint was recently filed against Regal Medical Group, Lakeside Medical Organization, ADOC Medical Group, and Greater Covina Medical (collectively, “Regal”) alleging that it negligently failed to protect the personal health and identifying information of 3.3 million people. According to the complaint, the Southern California-based medical groups failed to adequately protect the sensitive…

Cedars-Sinai Website And App User Data Is Secretly Sent To Advertisers.

A class action complaint was recently filed against Cedars-Sinai Health System and subsidiary Cedars-Sinai Medical Center alleging that both transmit to numerous third parties the personal data of Cedars-Sinai.org visitors without a users consent. Website And Mobile App Contain Third Party Tracking Tools The lawsuit claims that the prominent Los Angeles based healthcare organization—which sees…

Highmark Health Data Breach Puts 300,000 At Risk Of Identity Theft

According to a recent class action lawsuit, Highmark Health, the second largest integrated delivery and financing system in the US, suffered an email phishing attack that impacted 300,000 individuals who are now at risk of identity theft. Hackers Gained Access To Data Using A Phishing Email Highmark announced that an unauthorized individual was able to…