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US healthcare provider Community Health Systems (CHS) has settled a long-running legal fight by agreeing to pay $5m to settle legal claims against it over a 2014 data breach that affected more than six million patients.

• Attackers broke into a records system maintained by an IT supplier to Community Health Systems and lifted the patient data of 6.21 million people back in August 2014.
• The compromised records included names, Social Security numbers, physical addresses, birth dates, and telephone numbers – all useful information for potential identity thieves or other fraudsters.
• Tennessee-based CHS owned, leased, or operated 206 hospitals/doctor’s clinics at the time of the breach. IT service firm CHSPSC managed the health information management and IT systems for CHS.
• The FBI warned CHSPSC that its systems were compromised in April 2014. CHSPSC failed to act in any meaningful way of this warning, setting up the bigger problems that followed. (This is unfortunately very common.)

Tasks

1. Report on a significant data breach or cyber-attack that has happened in the last 6 months or is currently being dealt with. Please include the website in your post.
2. Think about what actions you can take to protect your identity and ensure your personal information is safe.