Patient files class action lawsuit against Norton Healthcare over ransomware attack
In the lawsuit, the patient claims that Norton failed to secure and safeguard hers and around 2.5 million other people’s personal information.
In the lawsuit, the patient claims that Norton failed to secure and safeguard hers and around 2.5 million other people’s personal information.
Fraud Management & Cybercrime
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Ransomware
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Cyber-criminals have become thoughtful about ransomware attacks; taking time to maximize your organization’s potential damage and their payoff. Protecting your network from this growing threat is more important than ever. And nobody knows this more than Roger Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4.
With 30+ years’ experience as a computer security consultant, instructor, and award-winning author, Roger has dedicated his life to making sure you’re prepared to defend against quickly evolving IT security threats like ransomware.
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Anti-Phishing, DMARC
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Business Email Compromise (BEC)
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime
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KnowBe4
60 minutes
Cyber-criminals have become thoughtful about ransomware attacks; taking time to maximize your organization’s potential damage and their payoff. Protecting your network from this growing threat is more important than ever. And nobody knows this more than Roger Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4.
With 30+ years’ experience as a computer security consultant, instructor, and award-winning author, Roger has dedicated his life to making sure you’re prepared to defend against quickly evolving IT security threats like ransomware.
Register for this Masterclass with Roger to learn what you can do to prevent, detect, and mitigate ransomware.
Register for this session and learn:
You can learn how to identify and stop these attacks before they wreak havoc on your network.
A Philadelphia law firm has filed a class action suit against Lehigh Valley Health Network alleging the hospital has prioritized money over patient privacy after photos of cancer patients were posted on the internet in a ransomware hack.
The suit filed by Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky focuses on photos that were published by hackers with the ransomware collective BlackCat over the last couple of weeks of cancer patients who received treatment through the network. The suit does not name a financial amount being sought for damages, instead requesting that the amount be determined by trial or the court.
The hackers acquired the photos through a ransomware attack on a physician’s practice owned by LVHN. The attack occurred in February and caused a leak of 132 gigabytes of patient data and photos. LVHN leaders have stated they refuse to pay the ransom, a tactic often touted by law enforcement and some cybersecurity experts, but in response, the hackers posted some of the photos online and have threatened to release more sensitive information if their demands are not met.
The suit filing states not only was the leak of these photos regrettable but that LVHN engaged in the “knowing, reckless, and willful, decision to let the hackers post the nude images” of Doe and others to the internet. And it accuses LVHN of “publicly patting itself on the back for standing up to the hackers” but “consciously and intentionally ignoring the real victims.”
The lead plaintiff, a woman from Lackawanna County referred to as Jane Doe, was informed by the network March 6 that photos of her receiving breast cancer treatment, which showed her exposed chest and face, had been posted by the hackers. In the suit, it is stated that Doe did not even know that the photos were taken or stored by the network.
She was also told other information was likely stolen, including her address, email address, date of birth, Social Security number, health insurance provider, medical diagnosis and treatment information, medications, and lab results, the suit states. Doe is the only person named or described in the suit.
However, in a news release, Patrick Howard, an attorney with the firm, said the exact number of…