- Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health Center has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the health system was negligent in protecting patients’ confidential information after its June 2020 data breach.
- Phoenix-based Banner Health has paid a $1.25 million settlement to resolve a data breach after a 2016 hacking incident disclosed the protected health information of 2.81 million consumers.
- Kalispell, Mont.-based Logan Health Medical Center reached a $4.3 million settlement with patients and employees whose personal and protected health information was likely accessed during a cyberattack.
- Gallup, N.M.-based Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services agreed to pay victims of a 2021 data breach up to $4,000 each.
- San Diego-based Scripps Health agreed to pay $3.57 million to settle a lawsuit from victims of a May 2021 ransomware attack that led to a massive data breach.
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