Email breach disclosed by US healthcare company one year after discovery

Synopsis

In March 2017, the healthcare company disclosed that bad actors had accessed four employee email accounts and may have accessed sensitive information for over 10,000 patients which was contained in some of the email accounts.

The potentially exposed information included patient names, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account numbers, credit/debit card numbers, dates of service, diagnosis and treatment information, medical history, facility and provider visited, health insurance/payor information and, if applicable, Medicaid identification number.

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