New Jersey slams Best Medical Transcription with $200K fine for 2016 breach

Healthcare IT News: Best Medical Transcription settled with the New Jersey Attorney General for $200,000 for its role in the breach of 1,654 Virtua Medical Group patients in January 2016.

As part of the settlement, the owner of Best Medical Transcription also is barred from ever owning or managing a business within the state again.

In January 2016, the transcriptionist vendor accidentally uploaded 1,654 patient files of Virtua to an FTP server that was left open to the public, with no need for authentication. What’s worse is that these files were indexed by Google and could then be found using key search terms from those patient files.

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