OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Premera Blue Cross agreed to pay $10 million to thirty states following an investigation into a data breach that exposed confidential information on millions of people across the country, most of them in Washington.
The settlement comes several weeks after Premera said it would spend $74 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of affected customers.
During the breach, which lasted from May 2014 to March 2015, hackers had access to sensitive data, including medical records, bank account information and Social Security numbers for 10.4 million people.