The Illinois Times reports:
A court hearing is scheduled Dec. 4 to finalize a $7.6 million settlement that would pay people whose personal information was seized by hackers in a targeted cyber attack that temporarily crippled Hospital Sisters Health System in 2023.
The nonprofit health system, based in rural Sangamon County near Riverton, discovered the suspicious cyber activity “by an unauthorized third-party threat actor” on its computer network in mid- to late August 2023, according to Sangamon County Circuit Court documents.
The breach caused the personal information of almost 869,000 former and current patients to be disclosed and resulted in several lawsuits to be filed against HSHS, which posts about $2.8 billion in annual revenues and operates HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield as its flagship.
Read more at The Illinois Times.