Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports:
A global law firm is notifying nearly 153,000 individuals of a hacking incident that compromised several client files. The files contained sensitive personal information and affects vision care patients who had been victims of a breach three years ago.
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe on July 20 reported the data breach to several state regulators, including the attorneys general of Maine and California, as well as a HIPAA breach to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Among the affected individuals was an Orrick client tied to a vision benefits plan that had suffered its own health data breach several years ago. Orrick said it had provided legal counsel for a 2020 security event involving the manager of the vision benefits plan.
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