Two Arkansas health systems face a total of eight federal lawsuits over recent cyberattacks, per Becker’s.
Mena (Ark.) Regional Health System and Nashville, Ark.-based Howard Memorial Hospital are being sued for data breaches that affected 84,814 people in late 2021 and 53,668 patients in late 2022, respectively.
Hospitals need to be “doing a lot more when it comes to security,” Los Angeles attorney Thiago Coelho, who is representing the plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits, said. “A lot of these hacks can be prevented if they use reasonable security standards, especially given how often these medical-related facilities are being targeted by hackers and the sensitive information that they have.” Read more.
