Up to $7,500 To Be Handed Out to Victims of Massive Cyberattack on Healthcare Firm

Thousands of dollars will be handed out to victims of a cyberattack that targeted a US healthcare firm and exposed the private data of patients.

According to a court-approved settlement website, NextGen Healthcare is settling with the victims of the cyberattack, which occurred in March and April 2023, after allegedly failing to protect their information as a part of its duties for up to $7,500 per victim.

“The Settlement Fund will be used to reimburse verifiable unreimbursed costs or expenditures that a Settlement Class Member actually incurred and believes are fairly traceable to the Data Breach, subject to an aggregate claims cap of seven thousand five hundred United States Dollars ($7,500)…

[The victims] allege that NextGen Healthcare failed to properly protect personal information in accordance with its duties, had inadequate data security, and violated certain state consumer statutes and other laws. On April 28, 2023, NextGen Healthcare announced that it had detected a third-party criminal cyberattack in which the attacker was able to gain unauthorized access to patient data.”

According to the complaint, the victims are still suffering the consequences of having their sensitive data, such as their social security numbers, breached.

“Plaintiffs and Class Members have and will continue to suffer injury from incurring out-of-pocket costs for, by way of example, purchasing credit monitoring services, credit freezes, credit reports, and other protective measures to deter and detect identity theft and fraud because the exposed information includes Social Security numbers and other immutable personal details.”

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