Daniel Lopez reports:
HealthEC LCC and its clients finally reached a settlement to resolve a class action data breach lawsuit involving a hacking incident and data breach in 2023. Analytics software vendor HealthEC, based in New Jersey, provides healthcare companies with a platform to determine high-risk patients and limitations to optimal healthcare. From July 14, 2023 to July 23, 2023, hackers viewed its system and took files that contain sensitive information. The breach report was at first submitted to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights as affecting the protected health information (PHI) of 4,452,782 people; nevertheless, the total has changed to 4,656,293 people.
HealthEC faced multiple class action lawsuits because of the data breach. Because the legal cases had similar details and made identical claims, they were combined into one lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in the New Jersey District. The defendants in the In Re: HealthEC, LLC Data Breach Litigation include HealthEC, LLC, Oakwood Accountable Care Organization, LLC, Corewell Health, Community Health Care Systems, and MD Valuecare, LLC.
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