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…
Zoll Medical Corporation, a company that provides medical devices and software solutions for advanced emergency care, including cardiac monitoring, oxygen therapy, ventilation, data management, and more, recently reported that it suffered a data breach and that the protected health information of more than 1 million patients was stolen. What Happened? According to a notification letter issued…
A class action lawsuit was recently filed against Fortra, a leading technology services company that provides data management and analytics solutions to financial technology banking platform Hatch Bank. Hatch Bank allows businesses to “securely” access bank services from other financial institutions using Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT secure file sharing program.. What Happened? According to the lawsuit,…
A class action lawsuit was recently filed alleging Maternal and Family Health Services (MFHS) is responsible for a data breach that reportedly occurred between August 21, 2021 until April 4, 2022 and compromised the personal information of more than 461,000 current and former patients, employees and vendors.. MFHS Negligence Responsible For Data Theft The lawsuit suit…
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…
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…
A class action lawsuit was recently filed against HR and payroll giant Sequoia Benefits & Insurance and its subsidiary Sequoia One after announcing that its cloud storage system was breached and critically sensitive information on its users stolen. Sequoia Waited Months Before Notifying Clients They Are At Risk For Identity Theft On December 7, 2022,…
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…
A class action lawsuit was recently filed against Group Health Plan alleging the health care provider knowingly transmits confidential personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) to third parties, include Meta Platforms, Inc.(Facebook). Group Health Plan operates two websites, www.healthpartners.com and www.virtuwell.com which it encourage patients to use for booking medical appointments, locating physicians…
TikTok’s Use of In-App Browsers to Intercept Users’ Sensitive and Personal Information Input into Third-Party Websites. Another class class action lawsuit against tech giant TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance. This time the suit alleges the tech giant intentionally violates federal wiretap and user privacy laws in its pursuit to know and record in real-time…
