“A cancer patient filed the lawsuit as an anonymous plaintiff, referred to as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, after [Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa.’s] chief compliance officer informed her by phone that photos of her naked during her treatment were online, the lawsuit said. Jane Doe said she wasn’t aware the photos were taken in the first place and worries that people will identify her…” Her lawyer wants to turn this into a class action suit involving 2,760 patients whose medical photographs were hacked.
The suit raises a tangle of legal issues, including whether a court could order a private entity to make ransomware payments that might violate various US regulations.
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Jane Doe lawsuit asks judge to compel Lehigh Valley Health Network to pay hackers more than $5 million in a bid to have stolen photos removed from the internet.
Source: Patient Seeks to Force Hospital Network to Pay Hackers Ransom to Remove Naked Photos Online