Excellus Health Plan fined $5.1M for 2015 data breach
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Jaclyn Jaeger2021-01-20T16:21:00
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights fined Excellus Health Plan $5.1 million for failures relating to a 2015 data breach that exposed the personal information of 9.3 million individuals.
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