Healthcare clearinghouse Immediata Health Group LLC will pay $1.4 million to the attorneys general of 32 states and Puerto Rico to settle allegations it negligently allowed a web crawler to scrape the personal health information of more than 1.5 million people over a three-year period.
Delaware alleged that Immediata failed to install code on two pages of its website that would have prevented the Bing Bot, a search engine web crawler, from indexing the pages between May 2016 and January 2019.
The company, which facilitates financial and clinical transactions between health care providers and insurers, didn’t install the security code ...
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