The breach affected 1.2 million patients. As part of the settlement, Scripps agreed to pay a minimum of $100 for each patient and up to $7,500 to each plaintiff who had their identities stolen or who qualified for “extraordinary out-of-pocket expenses.”
The health system is providing credit monitoring and identity theft services to victims of the data breach.
“Since the incident, Scripps has notified impacted parties, conducted a full investigation, and implemented a variety of additional safeguards to help reduce the likelihood of a similar incident occurring again,” a Scripps spokesperson told CBS8. “As a reminder, there was no unauthorized access to MyScripps patient portal or Scripps’s electronic medical records application.”
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