Healthcare provider pays $4.5m penalty for lax data policies and risk assessment

Nine staff sharing one email account among glaring errors in company systems.

A data breach that exposed the records of over two million clients of Ohio-based healthcare provider EyeMed Vision Care has led to penalties totalling $4.5m for the company. The case highlights the dangers of poor risk assessments and, particularly, failure to use multi-factor authentication (MFA).

EyeMed’s systems were breached when

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