In late September, Anthem Inc. entered into a $39.5 million settlement for a 2014 data breach that affected nearly 79 million individuals. [1] About a week later, CHS/Community Health Systems Inc. agreed to pay $5 million for a breach that same year; 6.1 million records had been hacked. [2] Premera Blue Cross, in July of last year, agreed to pay $10 million for its 2015 breach that exposed the protected health information (PHI) of more than 10.4 million people. [3] More than half of that amount—$5.4 million—went to Washington State alone, as its state Attorney General (AG) Bob Ferguson ha...