Ascension Health Data Breach Lawsuit Investigation

Our data breach attorneys have extraordinary experience and expertise in this area. Gibbs Law Group partner David Berger was appointed co-lead counsel to fight for over 10 million MGM customers whose information was stolen in a similar data breach in 2020.

Our award-winning lawyers are investigating a potential lawsuit against Ascension for not preventing hackers from accessing sensitive data affecting its 140-hospital network.

Gibbs Law Group would seek compensation for the data breach victims, who may include patients across Ascension’s 19-state hospital system.

Ascension has not confirmed what data has been compromised but its electronic health records, patient portals, and other systems handling patient data have been affected.

Ascension has confirmed that on May 8, their network systems were hit with a ransomware attack reportedly carried out by the cybercriminal group Black Basta. Since then, Ascension has said that some of its electronic health records, patient portal, phone, and medical systems have been unavailable.

Ascension has not confirmed whose data nor what kind of data has been compromised in the cyberattack. However, patients have experienced disruptions getting medications, test results, and other care across Ascension’s network of 140 hospitals, according to the New York Times and NPR. Doctors at Ascension facilities have said that they’ve had to go back to writing paper charts and test orders, “kind of like we went back 20 years, but not even with the tools we had then.”

Ascension has confirmed that a cybersecurity incident affected its facilities in over a dozen states. There have been significant disruptions reported at major hospitals in its network, including those in the Seton Healthcare system.

Gibbs Law Group partner David Berger has represented consumers in some of the largest and most influential privacy and data breach cases in the country and has repeatedly obtained record-setting settlements.  He frequently speaks at conferences on data breach cases and other class action topics. David is a former Chair of the American Association for Justice’s Consumer Privacy and Data Breach Litigation Group.

Gibbs Law Group is a nationwide leader in class action lawsuits seeking to holding companies accountable for large-scale data breaches.  It has prosecuted some of the largest privacy cases throughout the country, and the firm’s attorneys have received numerous awards for their privacy and data breach work including “Cybersecurity & Privacy MVP,” “Top Cybersecurity and Privacy Attorneys Under 40,” and “Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar.”

The firm achieved a historic $1.5 billion settlement from Equifax in 2019, on behalf of 147 million consumers whose social security numbers and other private data were exposed in a breach.  Described by the court as “the largest and most comprehensive recovery in a data breach in U.S. history by several orders of magnitude,” the settlement also required Equifax to spend over $1 billion in data security technology and to make comprehensive security reforms.  Previously, the firm negotiated a $115 million settlement in the Anthem data breach, the largest data breach settlement at the time, after approximately 80 million personal records were compromised in a massive data breach of health insurance giant.

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