- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Aaron Nicodemus2024-10-16T15:34:00
It was a double whammy of cybersecurity no-nos for a federal contractor hit with a data breach: The personal data of Medicare beneficiaries contained in unencrypted screenshots were allegedly compromised when their third-party vendor’s server was hacked.
Virginia-based ASRC Federal Data Solutions (AFDS) agreed to pay nearly $307,000 to the Department of Justice to settle a False Claims Act (FCA) violation related to the breach, the DOJ said in a press release Wednesday. The company also agreed to waive more than $877,000 in costs it incurred notifying beneficiaries and providing credit monitoring.
The DOJ alleged that the storing of screenshots on the third-party vendor’s server violated cybersecurity requirements of the company’s contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and that AFDS “knowingly billed CMS in violation of these requirements.”
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