Pediatric Home Respiratory Services, doing business as Pediatric Home Service, faced a class action after a targeted cyberattack in November 2024 allegedly exposed sensitive personal information (like names, addresses, and Social Security numbers) and protected health information (such as medical and health insurance details) for tens of thousands of people who later received breach notices. Because health data can be used for both financial fraud and “medical identity theft” (for example, someone using another person’s insurance or medical identifiers), these incidents often create long-tail risks that extend well beyond the initial intrusion, prompting affected patients and families to seek compensation and protective services like credit and identity monitoring. The lawsuit was filed because plaintiffs claimed the company didn’t implement adequate safeguards to protect PHI/PII, a core expectation for healthcare-adjacent providers that handle patient data. While Pediatric Home Service denied wrongdoing, it agreed to a settlement that offers class members credit-monitoring options and cash benefits—up to $1,500 for documented, unreimbursed losses traceable to the incident (or an alternative $50 payment without documentation)—reflecting a common structure in data-breach settlements that tries to address both concrete out-of-pocket costs and the broader risk of future misuse. More broadly, this case fits a growing wave of healthcare-sector breach litigation, where plaintiffs argue that organizations entrusted with medical data must anticipate ransomware and other targeted attacks and invest accordingly in security controls, monitoring, and incident response. The industry context is shaped heavily by HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules and related breach-notification requirements, along with overlapping state privacy and consumer-protection laws; settlements like this one, even without admissions of liability, can influence how providers budget for cybersecurity, document compliance, and offer remediation when PHI is compromised.