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Daily Dashboard | Anthem to pay $16M to OCR over 2015 data breach Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Anthem has agreed to pay $16 million to the HHS Office for Civil Rights to settle alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy and Security Rules related to its 2015 data breach. Anthem's $16 million total surpasses a $5.55 million payment received by the OCR in 2016 to become the largest settlement ever received by the agency for a HIPAA violation. “The largest health data breach in U.S. history fully merits the largest HIPAA settlement in history,” OCR Director Roger Severino said. “Unfortunately, Anthem failed to implement appropriate measures for detecting hackers who had gained access to their system to harvest passwords and steal people’s private information.” Anthem has also agreed to enact a corrective action plan to comply with HIPAA rules.
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