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Medical billing firm Medusind discloses breach affecting 360k people
- SoftTalker 2y agoIt’s time to start penalizing these companies in a way that hurts. The real cost of asking hundreds of thousands of people to “monitor their accounts and credit” and the costs of resolving any fraud needs to be assessed, probably at treble damages.
- paulproteus 2y agoOne good option is FTC action. They have worked on this in the past, e.g. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/10/federal-trade-commission-gives-final-approval-settlement-uber https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/10/... https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/01/electronic-toy-maker-vtech-settles-ftc-allegations-it-violated-childrens-privacy-law-ftc-act https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/01/...