San Diego Family Care Opted for $1 Million Settlement to Take Care of Class Action Data Breach Lawsuit
San Diego Family Care, a medical, dental, & mental health services provider in California, has opted to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by patients affected by a 2020 data breach. The data breach that prompted the lawsuit was announced by the healthcare services provider in May 2021. The breach report submitted to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) stated that 125,500 patients were impacted, though the total was afterward adjusted to 154,513 patients. The breached data included names, dates of birth, government ID numbers, Social Security numbers, medical diagnosis or treatment details, health insurance data, financial account numbers, and…