Medical Debt Collector Data Breach Alert - Georgia, New York residents sue over Nationwide Recovery Services data breach

Four people this month have filed federal lawsuits against a Cleveland, Tennessee, debt collections agency following a July 2024 data breach.

Felicia Cooper, Charles Mitchell, Gary Self of Georgia and Lisa Nail of New York have each filed lawsuits against Nationwide Recovery Services, alleging the company delayed in notifying them of the breach, which could have exposed private financial and medical information. Mitchell, Self and Cooper are also suing Vitruvian Health. Rhea Medical Center is listed as another defendant in Nail's suit.

The four plaintiffs said in their lawsuits they started receiving notices that their data may have been compromised in mid-April. (And it may include up to 88,000 people)

Nationwide discovered the breach just under a week after it began last July, according to the lawsuits. The company informed Vitruvian and Rhea Medical Center of the breach months before notices were sent to people who may have been affected, the lawsuits said.

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/apr/23/sub-georgia-new-york-residents-sue-over/

What's the "greatest healthcare system in the world" doing with medical debt anyway?

What's the "greatest healthcare system in the world" doing with medical debt collectors anyway?

What's the "greatest healthcare system in the world" doing with medical debt collectors having your private data anyway?

And what's the "greatest healthcare system in the world" doing with medical debt collectors having your private data and that data getting hacked anyway?