Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

When a company gets breached through a third-party security vendor, who should bear responsibility? For one FinTech company, the answer is the firewall provider.

Breach Affected More Than a Dozen Healthcare Clients, 2.5M PatientsElectronic health records vendor Veradigm agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle consolidated class action litigation involving a December 2024 hacking incident discovered in mid-2025 that affected more than a dozen healthcare provider clients and about 2.5 million of their patients.

Suit Alleges Competitor Lets 'Shell Firms' Exploit National Data ExchangesElectronic health records giant Epic Systems is accusing a rival health information network vendor, Health Gorilla, of enabling a syndicate of "sham" entities "masquerading" as healthcare providers to improperly access patient records from national health data exchanges in pursuit of money.

Conduent Gets Sued; US Government's Cyber Shutdown Woes; Hacktivist Hits RiseThe latest ISMG Editors' Panel tackles: post-hack legal fallout for Conduent after it suffered the year's biggest health data breach, the U.S. government's shutdown complicating its response to the breach of vendor F5 and the rise in attacks targeting Western critical national infrastructure.

At Least 918K Affected in 2024 BianLian Data Theft AttackA New York-based pediatric practice and its managed services vendor have agreed to pay $5.15 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit stemming from a 2024 data theft attack affecting more than 918,000 people and allegedly carried out by cybercrime gang BianLian.

Also: Clorox Sues IT Vendor Over Password BlunderThis week, XSS forum admin arrested, Clorox sued Cognizant, Lumma Stealer is back, NY regulates water, U.S. maritime cybersecurity rules in effect, new Coyote banking Trojan, a hacker nabbed details of Mexico City auxiliary police, Latin America cyberattacks, and World Leaks stole synthetic data.

Also: Clorox Sues IT Vendor Over Password BlunderThis week, XSS forum admin arrested, Clorox sued Cognizant, Lumma Stealer is back, NY regulates water, U.S. maritime cybersecurity rules in effect, new Coyote banking Trojan, a hacker nabbed details of Mexico City auxiliary police, Latin America cyberattacks, and World Leaks stole synthetic data.

Several Affected HealthEC Healthcare Clients Are Chipping in to Fund SettlementA provider of artificial intelligence-enabled hospital cost-cutting software and several of its healthcare clients agreed to $5.48 million to settle proposed class action litigation involving a 2023 hacking incident affecting 4.6 million individuals.

The spyware company must pay the tech giant $168 million in punitive and compensatory damages after a 2019 attack targeting 1,400 devices.

Vendor Providing Employee Screenings Across Multiple Sectors Reports Cyber IncidentDISA Global Solutions, a third-party administrator of background checks and drug and alcohol testing for employers in multiple industries, said 3.3 million individuals are affected by a data theft incident that happened a year ago. The firm is already facing several lawsuits involving the breach.

Breach of GoAnywhere File Transfer App at Brightline Affected 1 Million PatientsVirtual mental health provider Brightline has agreed to pay $7 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit involving a data breach affecting about 1 million individuals stemming from the 2023 hack by ransomware gang Clop on software vendor Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer application.

7 Proposed Class Actions Filed Against Allegheny Health Network and IntraSystemsA Pittsburgh-based healthcare system and its Massachusetts-based IT services firm are facing at least seven proposed federal class action lawsuits involving a data theft - reported on Jan. 17 - affecting about 293,000 people. The hack is the latest major breach involving a business associate.

Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta's WhatsApp and NSO Group have revealed that the Israeli spyware vendor used multiple exploits targeting the messaging app to deliver Pegasus, including one even after it was sued by Meta for doing so

Vendor Blames Delta's Outage Severity on Its 'Own Response and IT Infrastructure'CrowdStrike has countersued customer Delta Air Lines, accusing the airline of employing a lawsuit and seeking damages in "a desperate attempt to shift blame" for Delta's own IT inadequacies having exacerbated its outage, unlike "other major airlines" that quickly resumed operations.

Lawsuit Compares Botched Software Update to HackingDelta Air Lines filed an acerbic lawsuit Friday afternoon against CrowdStrike that likens the endpoint security vendor's botched July 19 update to hacking. The suit accuses the cybersecurity company of "installing an exploit in Delta systems" by automatically rolling out an update.

Apple has filed a motion to "voluntarily" dismiss its lawsuit against commercial spyware vendor NSO Group, citing a shifting risk landscape that could lead to exposure of critical "threat intelligence" information

Tennessee-Based Specialty Networks Incident Is Latest Attack on Business AssociatesA vendor that provides information systems and transcription services to radiology practices is alerting 411,037 people of a hack discovered last December involving the theft of sensitive data. The firm already faces at least four proposed federal class action lawsuits related to the hack.

Firm Claims Safe Security Competed Unfairly, Engaged in 'Skullduggery'SecurityScorecard accused Safe Security and former employee Mary Polyakova in a civil complaint of stealing confidential customer information and engaging in unfair competition. The lawsuit seeks to protect SecurityScorecard's trade secrets and recover monetary damages.

2020 Attack Affected 13,000 Blackbaud Clients, 1.5 Billion of Their 'Constituents'A federal judge has denied class certification in consolidated proposed class action litigation against Blackbaud stemming from the fundraising software vendor's 2020 ransomware attack that affected 13,000 clients and compromised data of about 1.5 million donors, patients and other individuals.

A U.S. judge has ordered NSO Group to hand over its source code for Pegasus and other products to Meta as part of the social media giant's ongoing litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor