Have you ever gone to a hospital owned or operated by Tennessee-based Community Health Systems or its subsidiary CHSPSC, LLC? If so, then you might be one of the 400,903 South Carolina residents affected by a data breach.

SC Attorney General Alan Wilson and 2f7 other attorneys general won a judgment for the breach which affected 6.1 million patients nationwide.

“Privacy data breaches have been on the rise for years and we are challenged with balancing business interests as well as those of our consumers,” Wilson said. He hopes judgments like these will help others who are breach targets. Costs of strict cyber-security procedures can be substantial. It’s helpful when there are consequences for data breaches like this to encourage compliance for companies and corporations.

As part of the judgment, CHS must comply with security measures including a written incident response plan, security awareness and privacy training for all personnel with access to confidential information and limiting access to that information.

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