Patients are suing a Morrisville health center after they say a ransomware attack put their personal information in jeopardy, WCAX reports in Vermont.
The plaintiffs allege Lamoille Health Partners failed to adequately safeguard private information, violated HIPAA security standards and too took long to notify patients about the hack and what was taken.
Lamoille Health Partners first announced in June that suspicious unauthorized computer activity caused them to shut down their systems for more than a week.
In July, the health center said their system had been breached, but they weren’t informing patients because they didn’t have much information and they were working with the FBI to figure it out.
The health center released a notice to patients on Aug. 11.
The lawsuit says approximately 60,000 patients were affected. Plaintiffs seek compensatory damages and demand that Lamoille Health Partners improve its security systems. Read more.
