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Frederick Health Ransomware Attack Compromises nearly 1 Million Identities

Yale New Haven Health Data Breach Exposes Over 5.5 Million Patients To Identity Theft

Hertz Data Breach Exposes Customer's Sensitive Information

Hot Topic Data Breach Puts 57 Million Customers at Risk of Identity Theft

New York Blood Center Data Breach Affects Patients and Donors In All Operating Divisions

Email Phishing Incident at Lucent Health Compomises Client Identities.

Community Health Center Data Breach Exposes Over 1 Million Individuals to Identity Theft

Carruth Compliance Consulting Data Breach Puts School-District Employees at Risk of Identity Theft.

Excelsior Orthopaedics Data Breach Exposes 357K People To Identity Theft.

Data Breach at Texas Health & Human Services Jeopardizes Identities of 61K Individuals.

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Tag Archives: Personal Identifying Information

Group Health Plan Sued For Divulging Private Health Information To Third Parties

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 Clandestine Tracking Activities Violate User Privacy, Federal Wiretap Laws

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…

BetMGM Data Breach Exposes 1.5 Million Users To Identity Theft

Over 1.5 Million BetMGM Customers Allegedly Affected By Data Breach A class action lawsuit was recently filed against online gambling giant BetMGM for failing to adequately protect users’ personal identifying information (PII).. As a result, up to 1.5 million current and former users are now at risk for identity theft. The suit alleges that BetMGM…

Advocate Aurora Healthcare Sharing Private Patient Health Information With Third Parties.

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…

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…