The Indiana Office of the Attorney General (AG) is investigating the recent Medical Informatics Engineering’s (MIE) 3.9 million-victim data breach of Social Security numbers and medical information, which could spell big trouble for the organization, FiercEMR reports. “MIE is going to be in the limelight throughout the process,” the report states, noting AGs have the power to broaden the scope of investigations beyond HIPAA violations to include state laws. Meanwhile, James Young, one of the victims in the breach, is suing MIE, claiming it didn’t “take adequate and reasonable measures to ensure its data systems were protected” and did not “take available steps to prevent and stop the breach from ever happening.”
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