Ortho RI patients invited to join $2.9 million settlement after data breach

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.

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