Nebraska Medicine Data Breach Settlement Approved
A preliminary settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought against Nebraska Medicine over a 2020 data security incident.
Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine suffered a cyber-attack in September 2020. The attack disrupted the healthcare provider s information technology system, leading to the postponement of patient appointments.
Staff in the system’s hospitals and clinics had to chart by hand, and access to Nebraska Medicine s patient portal and to patients electronic health records was impacted.
An investigation into the incident revealed that an unauthorized party used malware to gain access to Nebraska Medicine and University of Nebraska Medical Center’s shared computer network between August 27 and September 20.
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Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center have just begun notifying 219,000 individuals of a hacking incident that was discovered last September. The lag between breach discovery and notification illustrates the difficulties organizations often face in incident response, some security experts say.
Nebraska Medicine/UNMC says in a statement posted earlier this month that on Sept. 20, 2020, it identified unusual network activity that affected some of its IT systems.
Nebraska Medicine/UNMC then initiated incident response protocols to minimize any disruption to patients and isolated potentially impacted devices and shut off select systems as a precaution, the statement says. We also initiated an investigation, computer forensic experts were engaged to assist our ongoing investigation and we notified law enforcement.
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