Memorial Hospital System Ransomware Attack and Data Breach Complaint

January 27, 2022

In recent years, a frequent target of cyberattacks have been health care entities. In this case, Marietta Area Health Care, Inc., doing business as Memorial Hospital System (MHS), was attacked, exposing the personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) of a large number of patients. This class action bring suit against MHS for what the complaint calls inadequate safeguarding of the information it collected and maintained and for failing to provide timely notice of the data breach.