We previously reported that Cottage Health, a health care entity operating several hospitals in California, settled with the State of California for $3 million in regard to a security incident that occurred in 2013. On February 7, 2019, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a press release that it settled HIPAA violations in December
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Cottage Health Pays $2M to CA AG for Data Breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
Cottage Health, a three hospital health care system located in California has agreed to pay the California Attorney General’s Office $2 million to settle allegations that it failed to implement data security safeguards to protect patients’ health information that was accessible online and indexed by search engines.
In December 2013, it was discovered that one…