HHS: Health Insurer Pays $6.85 Million to Settle Data Breach Affecting Over 10.4 Million People
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OCR's investigation found systemic noncompliance with the HIPAA Rules including failure to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis, and failures to implement risk management, and audit controls.
"If large health insurance entities don't invest the time and effort to identify their security vulnerabilities, be they technical or human, hackers surely will. This case vividly demonstrates the damage that results when hackers are allowed to roam undetected in a computer system for nearly nine months," said
In addition to the monetary settlement, PBC has agreed to a robust corrective action plan that includes two years of monitoring. The resolution agreement and corrective action plan may be found at: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/premera-ra-cap.pdf - .
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