Thursday, October 8, 2020

Mississippi Gets $$$ in Hospital Data Breach

 Attorney General Lynn Fitch issued the following statement. 

Attorney General Lynn Fitch, along with the Attorneys General of 27 other states, has obtained a judgment against Tennessee-based Community Health Systems, Inc., and its subsidiary, CHSPSC LLC. This resolves an investigation of a data breach which impacted approximately 6.1 million patients, including 210,682 Mississippians. Mississippi will receive $141,333.90 as a result of the ruling.

“As cybersecurity threats persist, we must be constantly vigilant to keep personal information secure,” said Attorney General Lynn Fitch. “I will continue to work with local, state, and federal partners to enforce laws that protect Mississippi consumers and stop bad actors who seek to compromise the integrity, security, and confidentiality of personal and private information.”

At the time of the data breach, CHS owned, leased, or operated 206 affiliated hospitals including several hospitals located in Mississippi. Exposed in the breach were the names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, and addresses of patients. The judgment, agreed to by CHS, requires a $5-million payment to the states and provides that CHS agree to implement and maintain a comprehensive information security program reasonably designed to safeguard Personal Information (PI) and Protected Health Information (PHI).

Specific information security measures contained in the agreed judgment include requirements to:
  • develop a written incident response plan,
  • incorporate security awareness and privacy training for all personnel who have access to PHI, and
  • limit unnecessary or inappropriate access to PHI and to implement specific policies and procedures regarding business associates, including use of business associate agreements and audits of business associates.

In addition to Mississippi, this settlement includes Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia.


20 comments:

Anonymous said...

*Jim Hood

Anonymous said...

Go ahead, commenters. Bitch about the AG taking money from corporations... wait. There’s as Republican in office. Totally different.

Anonymous said...

Am I reading this right? 6.1 million people will split $141,333.90. That is a little over 2.3 cents each. While sharing this information, please itemize the lawyers and firms fees and expenses who were the only winners in this deal. Hell, it would cost $3 million dollars to mail these 2.3 cent checks.

Anonymous said...

That is outstanding work by the TENNESSEE Attorney General. Thank you Lynn by not screwing it up by attempting to contribute. Your timely decision to opt in and do nothing is greatly appreciated.

Anonymous said...

I guess it's better than nothing, but unless Fitch's office just made a few phone calls and got Community Health Systems to cough up that money, they could spend $141,333.90 on attorney fees in very little time.....even government lawyers.

Spending several hundred thousand dollars to get $141,000, in my mind, is not a good deal.

Anonymous said...

We can almost afford to buy the state a new 3 bedroom house with that sum of money. Way to go Lynn!

Anonymous said...

Fish tanks for every office!

Anonymous said...

I know they saw go for the low fruit but dang, does that office have any good news to share.

Anonymous said...

Participation trophies for state-wides.

Anonymous said...


Does Granny Fitch even know what a data breach is?

If she ever gets in front of a camera someone ask her to define it.

Anonymous said...

210,682 Mississippians, $141,333.90 means $0.68 each! Do we need to come pick it up or will you mail us a check?

Anonymous said...

these state "claims" are the biggest scam of the 21st century. zero $ goes to the alleged victims. its taxation without any representation whatsoever. And it won't stop until the revolution

Tired of this b***s***! said...

As you know, plaintiff lawyers often work solely for a portion of the winnings. I would love to see full disclosure of this case, but I know I never will. After all, these outside attorneys were working for the people of the state of Mississippi, so aren’t we entitled to know how much we paid them?

Anonymous said...

She better get to suing some more folks, the Feds are going to be looking for that misused welfare money soon.
Pretty sure the next administration will pursue reimbursement doggedly.

Anonymous said...

The victims will never see a cent. The government gets the money. Oh, and the attorneys hit the jackpot.

Anonymous said...

True, its $0.68 per person who's name was 'breached' - but was there any real damage.

Just because their computer system screwed up (who's hasn't) and these names and data info was 'breached', did anybody get any of that information and do anything with it?

This was a lawsuit brought by some other state's AG, and was joined in by Hood I would assume - but for this particular case the fact that MS got $141k is probably $140k more than the damage done.

What the hell is with this of multi-state lawsuits over bullshit issues? When there is real damage, go after them. But a cybersecurity scrweup, where the likelihood is that nobody was hurt, stop this crap and go after the real problems in this country.

Anonymous said...

I can’t wait until we get our first Republican AG. This RINO not included

Anonymous said...

Hey 5:57, I taught the Friends of Phil was going to account and pay back that money.

Anonymous said...

Why is "said Attorney General Lynn Fitch" in bold? Vanity? What a joke.

Anonymous said...

@ 10:11 am

That’s an old person’s idea of subliminal messaging.


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