{"id":2056,"date":"2021-01-26T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T08:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groupactionlawyers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2021-01-26T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:00:38","slug":"claim-for-the-transform-hospital-group-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groupactionlawyers.co.uk\/blog\/claim-for-the-transform-hospital-group-data-breach","title":{"rendered":"Claim for the Transform Hospital Group data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

For clients of the Transform Hospital Group, 2020 ended with the distressing news that their private data had been exposed in a malicious ransomware attack.<\/p>\n

As a plastic surgery chain, the group holds extremely sensitive information about their patients, including surgery photos known as \u201cbefore and after\u201d images. It is understood that such photos are the subject of the ransomware attack, with some 500 gigabytes of it being held.<\/p>\n

The affected customers may now be living in constant fear of their sensitive information being published online, as well as their details being misused in order to commit fraud or identity theft. With such sensitive information at risk, customers are, unsurprisingly, very distressed by the prospect of targeted exposure and humiliation. At the Group Action Lawyers, we have already begun taking on claimants, and we foresee that a group action may be brought if more claims are made, allowing us to launch a collective fight for justice.<\/p>\n

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The exposed information and potential risks<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In many data breaches, the exposed information is restricted to only a few types of data, but this has not been the case for the Transform Hospital Group data breach. The extent of the compromised data is shocking, with exposed details including:<\/p>\n