Massachusetts Attorney General reached an agreement with Briar Group to pay $110,000 in penalties. The settlement stems from allegations that the restaurant chain didn’t adequately protect customer payment data after a malicious application was installed on its systems. Experts question whether the government is penalizing one of the victims in a crime, rather than helping to mitigate the risk of identity theft. Enloe Medical Center in California decided to fight a fine it received last year after it reported that the center had discovered that on several different instances the medical records of one patient were inappropriately accessed.”]