Daniel Elliott, a Georgia resident and patient of St. Joseph's/Candler Hospital Health System, has filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of himself and the 1.4 million patients, professionals, and clients whose personal, financial and health information may have been compromised in the ransomware attack against the hospital's IT systems.
Filed on Aug. 28, by the Savannah-based personal injury firm of Harris Lowry Manton LLP, the lawsuit alleges that SJ/C, the region's largest health care system, violated its privacy policy and acted negligently when it failed to adequately secure patients' information and take preventive measures to avoid the ransonware attack and data breach, which was detected on June 17. Subsequent investigations revealed that the unauthorized party gained access to the hospital system's IT network between Dec. 18, 2020, and June 17, 2021.
According to the lawsuit, patients suffered an increased risk of identity theft and medical identity theft, and "have been forced to expend, and must expend in the future, to monitor their financial accounts, health insurance accounts, and credit files as a result of the data breach." No specific instances of identity theft were cited in the lawsuit.
Plaintiffs further allege the hospital neglected to "design, adopt, implement, control, direct, oversee, manage, monitor and audit appropriate data security process, controls, policies, procedures, protocols and software and hardware systems" to protect patients'...
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