Medical appointment details leaks and breaches

If your medical appointment details have been leaked or disclosed, or involved in a cyberattack, you could be entitled to claim compensation. We may be able to represent you on a No Win, No Fee basis.

Your Lawyers, as Leading Data Leak Lawyers, are used to representing victims of medical data breach compensation cases as one of the most common types of incidents that we help people with. Our experience of working in this niche and complex area of law for almost decade means we truly understand the substantial impact that such a breach can have on the victim.

Our legal team is happy to provide free, no-obligation legal advice about a healthcare data breach compensation claim here now.

Claim compensation for medical appointment details breaches

You could be eligible to claim data breach compensation if your medical appointment details have been leaked or disclosed, or in some way exposed, without your consent.

Our medical information is some of the most private and sensitive that there can be about us. This is why we want it to remain confidential, and the law reflects this by classifying medical information a “special category” data in accordance with the GDPR. On top of this, rules with regards to patient confidentiality are strict within the healthcare sector to ensure that privacy is maintained. What this means is that any medical data breach can have a significant impact on the person affected.

The impact can vary from person to person, and can depend on how the individual feels about what has happened, but context is often very important in a legal case such as this. For example, if the details of a medical appointment are leaked, but no information is provided as to the nature of the appointment, the impact could be limited. However, if the medical appointment clearly relates to something sensitive, or is taking place at a specific clinic that deals with particular matters, this could mean that more than just personal information has been affected.

An easy example that we often use is that of the 56 Dean street clinic leak that occurred in 2015. Although this was not a medical appointment details breach, it was an email leak from a clinic that was in relation to people suffering from HIV. As such, the names and email addresses of users of the clinic who were suffering from HIV was leaked which was catastrophic.

Free, no-obligation advice now

If your medical appointment details have been leaked or perhaps disclosed without consent, or maybe they have been accidentally published online or exposed in a cyberattack, you have rights.

The GDPR could entitle you to claim data breach compensation and we may be able to represent you for legal case on a No Win, No Fee basis. You could be eligible to recover compensation for any distress that has been caused by the loss of control of your personal medical information.

Speak to the team for free, no-obligation legal advice here now.

WannaCry NHS data breach 2017

The WannaCry NHS data breach that occurred in 2017 was an example of how significant a cyberattack that hits the NHS could be. Although the actual attack was more widespread and hit many sectors, the impact that took place on the NHS was monumental.

We rely so much nowadays on the ease and access of information sharing. There is no doubt that medical professionals and patients benefit from easy digital access to medical data. With such access comes the responsibility to ensure that it is protected at all times, otherwise a medical information leak or hack could occur which could have a substantial impact on the victims.

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