Nuance Ex-Employee Arrested and Geisinger sued for neglecting to adequately safeguard the personal and health information of its patients, through a class action lawsuit.
Geisinger, a healthcare provider operating in Pennsylvania, is confronting a class action lawsuit due to the unauthorized personal information access of over 1.2 million individuals by an ex-Nuance worker during November 2023.
In late November, Geisinger detected a data breach and quickly alerted Nuance – a company owned by Microsoft.
According to the incident notice, “A previous employee of Nuance had accessed certain patient information at Geisinger just two days after their employment was terminated.” The ex-employee’s access to the sensitive data was promptly revoked.
The healthcare provider reported that the data that may have been accessed and taken consisted of names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, race, and gender as well as admission records with discharge or transfer codes along with medical record identification.
Geisinger said
The former employee of the company did not illegitimately access any claims or insurance information, credit card details or bank account numbers, financial data alongside Social Security numbers.
After Nuance Ex-Employee is Arrested, the company is informing individuals who may have been affected by the occurrence. Additionally, the previous employee known as Max Vance (or Andre J. Burke) has been apprehended and indicted.
Geisinger explained that the notification process for affected individuals was deferred due to a request made by law enforcement agencies who were investigating the occurrence.
In the previous month
Geisinger notified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that a total of 1,276,026 persons had been impacted by the data breach.
Last week, a federal class action lawsuit was filed against Geisinger in the U.S. Middle District Court of Pennsylvania for reportedly failing to secure patients’ health and personal information properly.
The plaintiff, James Wierbowski is requesting compensation that exceeds $5 million.
Kaiser Permanente’s non-profit charitable organization Risant Health recently acquired Geisinger which operates 134 care sites across Pennsylvania including ten hospital campuses with over 26,000 employees.
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