September 11, 2024
Pennsylvania-based healthcare company Lehigh Valley Health Network will pay $65 million to individuals who had their private information, including cancer patients' nude images, exposed in a data breach, the plaintiffs' lawyers announced Wednesday.
June 26, 2023
A proposed class action accusing the Lehigh Valley Health Network of allowing ransomware hackers to swipe patient data — including nude photos used in the treatment of cancer patients — was sent back to state court Monday, after Lehigh Valley admitted that most of the potential class members lived in Pennsylvania.
May 22, 2023
A patient accusing Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley Health Network of negligently allowing ransomware attackers to steal and publish her nude photos has asked a federal judge to keep her lawsuit alive, claiming that the hospital should have bolstered its defenses after acquiring a company that had suffered a prior data breach.
May 08, 2023
Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley Health Network sought to toss out a proposed class action over online ransomers stealing and posting nude photos of patients from their medical files, arguing to a federal court that the complaint lacked specifics on how the hospitals, rather than the hackers, were at fault.
April 06, 2023
Pennsylvania-based health care company Lehigh Valley Health Network failed to protect the nude images of cancer patients receiving treatment, causing them "embarrassment and humiliation" after the images were leaked in a February data breach, according to a lawsuit removed to Pennsylvania federal court Thursday.