Lurie Children’s Hospital is facing multiple lawsuits after a late-January cyber-attack potentially exposed the personal and health data of about 775,000 people. The lawsuits allege that the hospital failed to protect this information and was slow to notify those affected. The hospital, which had to take crucial systems offline for several weeks due to the attack, did not immediately comment.
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