Former vendor employee accessed data of 1.2 million Geisinger patients without authorization
A former employee of Nuance, an outside IT service provider to US healthcare provider Geisinger, abused their access to view patient data without authorization. Information of 1.2 million patients may have been exposed. A $5 million settlement was pursued in the related lawsuit, and a court approved it in March 2026.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Geisinger
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Possible exposure of information of 1.2 million patients
- Cause / method
- Abuse of access and unauthorized data access by a former employee of an outside IT service provider
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It was disclosed that a former vendor employee had accessed data of more than 1 million patients without authorization.
- The number of patients whose information may have been exposed was reported as 1.2 million.
- A $5 million settlement was pursued in the patient data breach lawsuit.
- A court approved the $5 million settlement.
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The summary and key facts are written by AI from related reports and may contain errors. Check the original articles and the organization’s official statements for accurate details.