Anthem agreed to pay $39.5 million as part of a settlement with U.S. state attorneys general over a 2015 data breach, Reuters reports. The health insurer said the breach was committed by a state-sponsored criminal group that penetrated a database with 80 million records, and it does not believe its data security violated the law. The company said an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and security organization FireEye produced no evidence of fraud related to the breach.
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