{"id":265959,"date":"2026-02-03T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265959\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:28:07","slug":"capital-health-agrees-to-pay-4-5m-in-data-breach-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265959\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Health agrees to pay $4.5M in data breach settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Capital Health, a health care provider with multiple locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, will pay $4.5 million as part of a settlement over a 2023 data breach<\/a> that compromised the private information of patients, former patients and employees. <\/p>\n

In a statement, the company said the stolen information included names, addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth, email addresses, telephone numbers and potentially clinical information.<\/p>\n

Anyone whose private information was potentially compromised because of the data breach may be entitled to a cash payment of up to $5,000, according to a notice of settlement.<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In addition, members of the settlement may be eligible to receive three years of free credit monitoring. Claims must be submitted online or mailed by April 6. <\/p>\n

The payments will be distributed after the settlement is approved by the court and becomes final.<\/p>\n

The settlement agreement is not an admission of wrongdoing. Capital Health expressly denies any fault or liability related to the data incident. <\/p>\n

In November 2023, Capital Health experienced a computer network outage due to a cyberattack<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The company subsequently launched an investigation which revealed that \u201ca cybercriminal organization\u201d may have accessed files on the company\u2019s network.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 7, 2024, the international ransomware group LockBit claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that it stole over 10 million files from Capital Health, according to the settlement document<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The group threatened to publicly release the private data on Jan. 9, 2024, unless Capital Health paid a ransom, according to the settlement. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how much they demanded and whether Capital Health paid up. <\/p>\n

A company spokesman said Tuesday that \u201cat this time we will not be commenting on the lawsuit\/data breach settlement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Capital Health operates two hospitals \u2014 Regional Medical Center in Trenton and Capital Health Medical Center in Hopewell \u2014 an outpatient facility in Hamilton, and a network of doctors\u2019 offices, according to its website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Capital Health, a health care provider with multiple locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, will pay $4.5 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-265959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}