Cybersecurity breach went unnoticed for two years and impacted patient data

Synopsis

In June 2020, the company disclosed they had suffered a data breach after three employee email accounts were accessed by an unknown perpetrator which had been discovered in April 2020 but had been ongoing since May 2018.

The compromised email accounts contained information on 28,268 patients' including patient names, dates of birth, contact information, healthcare information, insurance information, social security numbers, government identification numbers and/or financial account numbers.

Analyst

Courtenay Brammar

Experienced global enterprise risk and governance professional. Previously Vice President at Morgan Stanley, Deloitte Risk Advisory practitioner and PRMIA steering committee member in both London and New York.

Additional services

We offer a range of cost-effective, fixed-price training programmes and consultant services derived from the unique insights gained from all our case study data.

If you'd rather we did the heavy lifting in developing a cyber incident response plan or lessons learnt training for your organisation underpined by our unique insight into the challenges faced and strategies implemented by organisations countering today's cyber security threats then please contact us here.