A civil case stemming from a 2021 payroll data breach at UMass Memorial Medical Center was settled for $1.2 million this week, the Telegram & Gazette reports.
About 3,178 workers, who were shorted because of a cyber break-in in December 2021 that forced the shutdown of the payroll system, will be paid in the settlement, according to federal court documents.
Workers filed a lawsuit in March 2022 against UMass Memorial and its payroll management systems Kronos and UKG, criticizing the hospital’s “insufficient computer security policies and practices.” Read more.
