Ex-Nuance IT Worker Pleads Guilty in Geisinger Health Case

Fired Employee Illegally Downloaded 1M Patient Records Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • March 2, 2026

A former Nuance Communications tech worker pleaded guilty in a criminal case that alleged he downloaded and stored on a personal hard drive more than 1 million patient records of customer Geisinger Health two days after he was fired from his job in 2023.

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Max Vance, who is also known as Andre Vance, on Feb. 27 in a Pennsylvania federal court, as part of a plea agreement said he was guilty of one charge of obtaining information from a protected computer without authorization.

As part of the plea deal, prosecutors agreed to dismiss two charges of making false statements to FBI agents ...