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Poor Security At Yuma Regional Medical Center Places Seven Hundred Thousand At Permanent Risk Of Identity Theft

Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC), an Arizona based healthcare provider, faces a class action over an April 2022 data breach that compromised the personal and health information of 737,448 current and former patients. Failure To Follow Industry Security Guidelines Allowed Hackers To Gain Access To Data The lawsuit alleges that YRMC failed to meet data…

Poor Security At Lincare Places Patients At Permanent Risk Of Identity Theft

Lincare Holdings, Inc. faces a proposed class action lawsuit over its alleged failure to safeguard sensitive personal patient information stored on its servers. Lincare Waits Nine Months After Data Breach Before Informing Victims The lawsuit alleges Lincare, a medical equipment and services provider, was the subject of a cyber attack beginning on or about September…

OneTouchPoint Data Breach Places One Million Customers of Medical Services And Insurance Carriers At Risk For Identity Theft.

OneTouchPoint, Inc. faces a proposed class action over an April 2022 data breach that allegedly exposed consumer information stored by the printing and mailing services provider. The 46-page lawsuit alleges OneTouchPoint, whose customers include health insurance carriers and medical providers, failed to properly safeguard the personal information of over one million consumers. Per the suit,…

Tenet Healthcare Data Security Negligence Facilitated Data Breach – Lawsuit

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…

Data Breach at Professional Finance USA Exposes Patient Records Of 650 Healthcare Providers

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…

LAX Data Security at MCG Health Exposes 1.1 Million Patient Records

A wholly-owned subsidiary of the New York-based Hearst Health network, MCG Health is facing a proposed class action seeking to hold it accountable for failing to properly secure patients’ personally identifiable information (PII) and for failing to inform the impacted individuals quicker than the almost 3 months it took. MCG Health, a Seattle based software…

Two Million Impacted By Shields Health Care Data Breach

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,…

Lakeview Loan Servicing Data Breach Exposes Records Of 2.5 Million Customers – Lawsuit

Lakeview Loan Servicing, the fourth largest U.S. mortgage loan servicer, recently suffered a data breach that exposed the Personal Identifying Information (PII)  of over 2.5 million clients to the dark web. According to a lawsuit, hackers gained access to Lakeviews’ servers on or about October 27, 2021 but Lakeview wasn’t aware of the access until…

T-Mobile Data Breach Places Personal Identifying Information of 53 Million Customers At Risk

The number of users whose personal information might have been compromised in a recent cyber attack of T-Mobile has climbed to 53 million, as the telecommunication company is hit by a pair of class-action lawsuits. T-Mobile announced Friday it had discovered that another 5.3 million current customers and  667,000 former customers also had their information…