Aetna agrees to $17M payout in HIV privacy breach
(WorldNews Health)

Aetna has settled a lawsuit for $17 million over a data breach that happened in the summer of 2017. The privacy of as many as 12,000 people insured by Aetna was compromised in a very low-tech way: The fact that they had been taking HIV drugs was revealed through the clear window of the envelope. `I was shocked,` said Sam, who distinctly recalls the day he received the notice in August. (Kaiser Health News and NPR agreed not to use his full name because he worries about how going public with his HIV status might affect his work.) The letter came to his mailbox in an apartment complex in New Jersey. He wasn´t directly involved in the lawsuit but says the letter hit a level of vulnerability he...