Community Care Alliance Agrees to $1.09M Settlement Over Class Action Ransomware Lawsuit

Woonsocket, RI-based Community Care Alliance has agreed to pay $1,090,000 to resolve a class action lawsuit over a July 2024 ransomware attack by the Rhysida ransomware group.

Rhysida is a ransomware group that engages in double extortion tactics, stealing data and encrypting files. A ransom demand is issued, payment of which is required to obtain the decryption keys and to have the stolen data deleted. In contrast to many other groups that simply leak the stolen data if the ransom is not paid, Rhysida holds auctions and attempts to sell the stolen data, only leaking the stolen data if a sale cannot be secured. Rhysida claimed to have exfiltrated a 2.5 terabyte database in the attack.

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