C.R. Pharmacy Services, which does business as CarePro Health Services, is set to pay a $1,300,000 settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit over a November 2023 data breach.   The CarePro Health Services class action settlement  received preliminary approval from the court on September 4, 2025 and covers approximately 151,499 individuals whose personal information was potentially compromised in the CarePro data breach .

A woman has been charged after Scots patients had their private medical records accessed during an NHS data breach. Reports suggest around 100 patients in NHS Lothian could have had their records accessed as a result of the incident. The health board said it discovered patients in the region may have had their information "inappropriately accessed" during routine monitoring.

Heathrow  Airport, Marks & Spencer , Jaguar Land Rover, the British Library. These are some of the leading UK companies and institutions that have fallen victim to cyber crime  in the past couple of years. The repercussions have been serious – but it’s safe to say none of the attacks resulted in the death of innocent people. Yet that’s exactly what is happening with assaults on NHS  computer systems.

When cybercriminals attacked her hospital, a chief nursing officer I recently spoke with had a problem: How do patients call for help when all the technology is down? The solution was decidedly low-tech—cowbells distributed to each room so patients could ring when they needed assistance.

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Patients of OBGYN Associates are being warned that their health information may have been compromised in a security breach. Notification letters have been sent out to more than 62,000 patients, altering them of the breach. On or around Aug. 7, suspicious activity was detected and third party cybersecurity experts confirmed there had been unauthorized access to parts of it network where patient data was stored. Patients are being told their first and last n

Tampa-based Oglethorpe Inc. sent letters to more than 92,000 patients of their addiction treatment centers, a frightening letter: their private medical information was stolen. The theft happened in May, but those affected just learned about it on Friday, and it's already led to a lawsuit filed just hours ago.

Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health said some of its patients were affected by a cybersecurity incident involving Oracle Health, the EHR vendor formerly known as Cerner. Oracle Health notified LifeBridge in March that an unauthorized third party had gained access to its systems as early as Jan. 22 and obtained certain data, LifeBridge said in an Oct. 16 news release. The breach affected  multiple healthcare organizations that use Oracle Health’s platform.

The Justice Department’s push to encourage whistleblowers to raise cybersecurity fraud claims against US contractors has produced settlements that provide a window into alleged lapses, vulnerabilities, and shortcomings amongst governmental partners of all stripes. Georgia Institute of Technology last month became the latest federal funds recipient to resolve  a False Claims Act suit alleging inadequate performance of cybersecurity services in federal contracts. DOJ has announ

The dome of the Montana Capitol, with the statue of Mike and Maureen Mansfield in the lower center (By Darrell Ehrlick of the Daily Montanan). The Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance is warning nearly a half-million Montana customers of Montana Blue Cross-Blue Shield that their private data, including financial information, health information, or personal information may be at risk following a major data breach, and it has launched an investigation that could aff

WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — Ortho Rhode Island  has reached a $2.9 million class action settlement with patients whose information was compromised in a cyberattack last year . Target 12 reported back in November 2024 that a phone and computer system outage the previous September was actually a hack that could have exposed the names, addresses, billing and health insurance information, and other medical information of “a significant percentage” of Ortho RI’s patients.

HELENA — The office of Montana State Auditor James Brown, the state's commissioner of securities and insurance, has launched an investigation into Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana (BCBSMT) following a major data breach. According to the Auditor’s Office, the breach puts the personal and medical information of up to 462,000 Montana customers at risk.

A firm providing emergency medical services has been fined £100,000 after a serious data breach exposed sensitive patient information. Thousands of emails, some containing confidential health data, were stolen from the Medical Specialist Group (MSG) in Guernsey and later used in phishing campaigns targeting patients, said the Office of the Data Protection Authority (ODPA) in a statement .