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A settlement that actually paid out

msf
edited August 31 in Other Investing
PostMeds, dba TruePill Pharmacy, agreed to a settlement of $7.5M for a data breach that "contain[ed] information such as names, medication types, and, for certain patients, demographic information and prescribing physician names."

https://www.hipaajournal.com/postmeds-truepill-sued-over-2-3-million-record-data-breach/

I must have selected a cash payment in lieu of compensation for losses or free credit monitoring. Yesterday I received around $100 as my cut of the settlement. Yea. Sometimes one does get more than a few pennies out of these settlements.
https://truepillsettlement.com/

Still, these days that might barely cover a dinner for two, or perhaps just a lunch.

TruePill is the first of two pharmacies that Mark Cuban CostPlus Drugs contracted with to dispense drugs. It got overwhelmed by the volume and Cost Plus then contracted with a second pharmacy, HealthDyne. It looks like CostPlus recently dropped TruePill (see FAQ who fills my prescription).

I don't know if the massive number of orders was related to the data breach. I do know that CostPlus messed up my records (saying that my prescription could not be found).

CostPlus seems to have worked out most of its kinks since then. I can't say much about its backend pharmacies.

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  • yugo
    edited September 1
    Nice! I was subject of a data breach at a major US pharmacy chain a few years ago and was blackmailed with that data by the thieves (or their customers/underlings). All I got in return was a long and deeply felt letter of apology from the corporate office...
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