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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Faith Regional Health Services, based in Norfolk, Nebraska, needed to replace its legacy wireless network.
THE PROBLEM
The network was old, and a replacement was due. The healthcare organization did not really use that particular vendor anywhere else any longer. Basically, it was a wireless network that had reached end of life. The access points were X number of years old, and the controllers were X number of years old.
Faith Regional needed to either upgrade that wireless network with the vendor it was on (and that vendor would have loved to keep the organization as a client), or evaluate and move to a different vendor, which is what the organization ended up doing.