Below are five hospitals that are currently facing lawsuits filed by patients after cyberattacks.
1. Patients of Georgetown, S.C.-based Tidelands Health have filed a class-action lawsuit claiming the health system failed to protect their personal health information following a malware attack.
2. A patient of Health Quest is suing the Lagrangeville, N.Y.-based health system for allegedly failing to safeguard her protected health information after it was exposed in a phishing attack.
3. Patients of Kalispell (Mont.) Regional Healthcare filed a second lawsuit Dec. 24 against the health system after their protected health information was affected in a data breach. One of the 130,000 patients who may have been affected by a data breach at Kalispell Regional filed a lawsuit Nov. 25 against the health system.
4. Four patients filed a class action lawsuit against Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based DCH Health System, alleging privacy violations and medical care disruption after an October ransomware attack.
5. Ten patients who were affected by a data breach at Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care filed a class-action lawsuit Aug. 6 against the university.
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