Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

European Commission Sues 4 Countries for Not Implementing NIS2The European Commission is cracking down on Spain, France and other countries for failing to implement or abide by cybersecurity legislation. NIS2 forces the EU's member states to publish national cybersecurity strategies and boost the protection of critical infrastructure across sectors.

License Frontier AI to Practice Medicine, Argues JAMA ArticleScrutiny is intensifying around the quickly evolving role that AI is playing in healthcare. That includes issues around the transparency and safety of consumer health chatbots and also whether a new clinical AI licensing framework is necessary to protect the integrity of medicine.

Complaints Allege Tempus AI Lacked Consent to Use, Share Data With Pharma Cos.A healthcare artificial intelligence firm that sells genetic information from an acquired database holding the results of millions of screening tests faces multiple putative class action lawsuits in Chicago federal court. Genetic data resists attempts to de-identify it, plaintiffs say.

Patients Allege Health Entities Did Not Get Consent to Record ConversationsProposed federal class action litigation alleges that two California healthcare organizations violated patient privacy in their use of an AI-enabled ambient tool that records, transcribes, and processes sensitive conversations between clinicians and patients without individuals' consent.

Iowa Seeking Civil Monetary Fines, Damages for Alleged ViolationsIowa's state attorney general is seeking financial damages, civil penalties and improvements to UnitedHealth Group's data security practices for alleged violations of state and federal laws and other claims involving the 2024 ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit.

Cybercrime Gang Allegedly Stole 4.7 Terabytes of Data, Affecting 2.5MNorton Healthcare, which operates nine hospitals and other care facilities in Kentucky and Indiana, has agreed to pay $11 million to settle class action litigation stemming from a 2023 data theft attack by ransomware-as-a-service gang Alphv/BlackCat that affected nearly 2.5 million people.

Parent company Cognizant hit with multiple lawsuits Thousands more Oregonians will soon receive data breach letters in the continued fallout from the TriZetto data breach, in which someone hacked the insurance verification provider and gained access to its healthcare provider customers across multiple US states.…

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.

Multimillion Dollar Deal Resolves 27 Lawsuits After 2023 Email Storage HackA Tennessee federal court has approved a multimillion dollar settlement in consolidated class action litigation against HCA Healthcare in the wake of a 2023 email data theft hack that the publicly traded company reported as affecting nearly 11.3 million individuals.

March Breach Affected Nearly 5.6 Million; NextGen Proposed Settlement Also ReachedConnecticut's largest healthcare network - Yale New Haven Health System - has agreed to pay $18 million to settle class action litigation filed in the aftermath of a March hack affecting nearly 5.6 million people. The incident ranks as the biggest health data breach reported so far in 2025.

2 Firms Hit by Separate 2024 Attacks to Pay Total of $6.5M in Class Action ClaimsA Nebraska-based revenue cycle management firm and a Swiss-based blood products manufacturer with plasma collection centers in the United States are the latest healthcare sector companies agreeing to pay multimillion dollar lawsuit settlements for two separate 2024 hacks affecting scores of patients.

2 Firms Hit by Separate 2024 Attacks to Pay Total of $6.5M in Class Action ClaimsA Nebraska-based revenue cycle management firm and a Swiss-based blood products manufacturer with plasma collection centers in the United States are the latest healthcare sector companies agreeing to pay multimillion dollar lawsuit settlements for two separate 2024 hacks affecting scores of patients.

Bayhealth Medical Center Was Among Cybercrime Group's Many 2024 Healthcare VictimsBayhealth Medical Center in Delaware - an alleged victim of a 2024 hack by the "notorious" and prolific ransomware gang Rhysida that resulted in a breach affecting nearly a half-million people - has agreed to a preliminary settlement in a proposed class action lawsuit stemming from the incident.

Class Action Litigation Accused Mt. Sinai of Sending Patient Info to FacebookA New York City healthcare system has agreed to pay nearly $5.3 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the hospital's use of online tracking tools in its patient portal and website sent patient information to Facebook without their knowledge or consent for years.

Settlement Is Latest Among Scores of Other MOVEit Lawsuits Still PendingNuance Communications, a Microsoft subsidiary, has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle class action litigation filed after hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Progress Software's MOVEit file transfer software in 2023, stealing data belonging to more than a dozen of Nuance's healthcare clients.

Lawsuit Claims BJC Health Shared Patient Info From MyChart Portal Without ConsentA Missouri healthcare system has agreed to pay up to $9.25 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that its use of online tracking tools in its patient portals transmitted sensitive patient information to third-party firms without the patients' knowledge or consent.

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.

In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in 2023. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, a.k.a. "Pompompurin," is slated for resentencing next month after pleading guilty to access device fraud and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec A now-former pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been accused of compromising the US healthcare organization's IT systems to ogle female clinicians using webcams at their workplace and at their homes.…