Victims of Cyberattack to Get a Slice of $7,500 Pie! 🥧💰

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Well, gather ’round folks, because it seems there’s a pot of gold at the end of this rather dubious cyber rainbow! A heap of dollars will be dished out to those poor souls who found themselves on the receiving end of a cyberattack aimed at a healthcare firm. Who knew that being a victim could pay off so handsomely? 💸

Now, according to a court-approved settlement website (because what better way to settle than with bureaucratic flair?), NextGen Healthcare has decided to part with up to $7,500 for each unfortunate victim. This generous offer comes after they apparently dropped the ball in safeguarding their patients’ private data during the tempestuous months of March and April in the year 2023. You know, just a minor hiccup in their duties! 🤦‍♂️

“The Settlement Fund will be used to reimburse verifiable unreimbursed costs or expenditures that a Settlement Class Member actually incurred and believes are fairly traceable to the Data Breach, subject to an aggregate claims cap of seven thousand five hundred United States Dollars ($7,500)…

Now, the self-proclaimed victims-who quite rightly think their personal information should’ve been locked up tighter than a drum-allege that NextGen Healthcare was as vigilant as a sleeping cat when it came to guarding their data. They claim the firm’s data security was about as sturdy as a wet paper bag and that they might have broken a few laws along the way. On April 28, 2023, NextGen announced that a dastardly third-party criminal had waltzed right in and made off with enough patient data to start a very shady business. 🕵️‍♂️

The complaints keep rolling in, like a stubborn tide; the victims are still feeling the sting of having their sensitive information-such as their social security numbers-exposed. Talk about a case of identity theft that keeps on giving! 🎁

“Plaintiffs and Class Members have and will continue to suffer injury from incurring out-of-pocket costs for, by way of example, purchasing credit monitoring services, credit freezes, credit reports, and other protective measures to deter and detect identity theft and fraud because the exposed information includes Social Security numbers and other immutable personal details.”

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2026-01-10 21:27