New York reaches settlement with medical management company over patient data

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On May 23, the New York attorney general announced a settlement with a medical management company, for allegedly failing to protect over 428,000 New Yorkers’ personal and health data from a 2020 ransomware cyberattack affecting roughly 1.2 million consumers nationwide. According to the AG’s investigation, the company implemented a new version of its software in January 2019, but allegedly failed to conduct a series of security tests and scans that could have identified any security problems. Further, the private information maintained by the company was not encrypted. Notably, information for 13 consumers was apparently discovered on the dark web days after the hack. The investigation concluded that the company, amongst the 28 areas where they failed to maintain reasonable data security practices to protect patients’ private and health information, allegedly failed to maintain appropriate patch management processes, conduct regular security testing of its systems, and encrypt the personal information on its servers. Under the terms of the assurance of discontinuance, the company, while neither admitting or denying the allegations, agreed to pay $550,000 in penalties, and will improve its data security practices and offer affected customers free credit monitoring services.
 

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