The HIPAA Journal reports cycle management firm MedData agreed to pay USD7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit related to a data breach. The lawsuit involved an incident where the data of 136,000 people was exposed after an employee allegedly uploaded the information to a public-facing website.
19 April 2024
MedData data breach lawsuit settled for $7M
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