Data Breach News, Legal News, News
March 15, 2025
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Judge Calls for Change Healthcare Data Breach Lawsuits in State and Federal Courts To Be Coordinated

About Lawsuits reports that all the state and federal lawsuits against Change Healthcare should be coordinated: The U.S. District Judge appointed to preside over all Change Healthcare data breach lawsuits brought throughout the federal court system has issued an order, outlining a plan to coordinate the pretrial proceedings in the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) with claims pending […]

Legal News, Malware Ransomware, News
March 14, 2025
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Dual Russian And Israeli National Extradited To The United States For His Role In The LockBit Ransomware Conspiracy

The U.S. Department of Justice announced: A dual Russian and Israeli national was extradited to the United States on charges that he was a developer of the LockBit ransomware group, United States Attorney John Giordano announced. In August, Rostislav Panev, 51, was arrested in Israel pursuant to a U.S. provisional arrest request.  Today, Panev was […]

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March 08, 2025
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$25M loanDepot data breach class action settlement

Top Class Actions reports: Mortgage lender loanDepot agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve claims it failed to prevent a 2024 data breach that compromised the information of 16.9 million customers. The loanDepot settlement benefits individuals who received a data breach notice from loanDepot informing them their information may have been compromised in a data […]

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March 04, 2025
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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care to pay $16 million to settle data breach litigation

Teiss reports: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and its parent company, Point32Health, have reached a $16 million settlement to resolve claims arising from a 2023 ransomware attack that compromised the sensitive data of nearly three million individuals. The agreement follows multiple class action lawsuits that were consolidated into a single case in the U.S. District Court […]

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February 23, 2025
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Nude photos of Beverly Hills plastic surgery patients exposed in data hacks, lawsuit alleges

The Los Angeles Times reports: A celebrity Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, who has appeared on television shows including “Botched” and “The Doctors,” is being sued by patients who allege that their nude photos were published online after he was hacked — twice — and that he waited months to inform them of the data breaches. […]

Legal News
February 23, 2025
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New York’s Health Information Privacy Act Poised to Become the Latest in a Growing Trend of State Data Privacy Laws

Seen at Epstein Becker Green’s Health Law Advisor: New York State appears poised to become the fourth state to explicitly regulate consumer health data not covered by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). In May of 2023, Washington State enacted the My Health My Data Act; in June of 2023, Connecticut amended […]

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February 22, 2025
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HHS Office for Civil Rights Imposes a $1,500,000 Civil Money Penalty Against Warby Parker in HIPAA Cybersecurity Hacking Investigation

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a $1,500,000 civil money penalty against Warby Parker, Inc., a manufacturer and online retailer of prescription and non-prescription eyewear, concerning violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule, following the receipt of a breach […]

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February 21, 2025
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Judge Sets Deadline for Motions to Dismiss Claims in Change Healthcare Data Breach Lawsuits

The HIPAA Journal reports: A District Court Judge has set a March 2025 deadline for Change Healthcare to file motions to dismiss certain claims raised in multiple complaints in response to its February 2024 ransomware attack and data breach. In February 2024, Change Healthcare suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in file encryption and the […]

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February 17, 2025
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Brightline to pay $7M to resolve Fortra hack lawsuit

2023 was a bad year for commercial file transfer software apps because the Clop ransomware gang kept managing to find zero-day vulnerabilities to exploit. One of their campaigns involved Fortra’s GoAnywhere software. Even though Fortra issued a patch for CVE-2023-0669 within a week of discovery, there were many victims, including Brightline. Now TechTarget reports that […]