ESecurity Planet: The San Jose Mercury News reports that Stanford Hospital & Clinicsand former contractor Multi-Specialty Collection Services (MSCS) will likely pay $4.1 million to settle a class action lawsuit over a 2010 data breach that exposed approximately 20,000 emergency room patients’ medical information (h/t Becker’s Hospital Review).
The patients’ medical record numbers, hospital account numbers, billing charges and emergency room admission and discharge dates were made available online for almost a year beginning on September 9, 2010.
