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The second significant breach occurred at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, where the personal data of 13.4 million individuals was compromised. This breach involved unauthorized access and the use ...
Medical data, including patients' identity information, health status, disease diagnosis and treatment, and biogenetic information, not only involve patients' privacy but also have a special sensitivity and important value, which may bring physical and mental distress and property loss to patients and even negatively affect social stability and national security once leaked.
University Medical Center Healthcare System in Lubbock, a Level 1 trauma center, announced the outage at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26. The next day, the system confirmed it was being impacted by ...
In a May announcement, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said healthcare providers can ask UnitedHealth to notify people impacted by the hack on their behalf.
The Anthem medical data breach was a medical data breach of information held by Elevance Health, known at that time as Anthem Inc. . On February 4, 2015, Anthem, Inc. disclosed that criminal hackers had broken into its servers and had potentially stolen over 37.5 million records that contain personally identifiable information from its servers. [1]
A large amount of out-patient appointments were also cancelled; most community health services are unaffected. [26] O'Connor also reported that "we don't know what data has been taken", but "we know some data has been compromised", with the Data Protection Commissioner being alerted to the potential breach. [27]
Hundreds of thousands of Sutter Health patients are learning that they had personal information stolen as part of the same massive data breach last May that hit roughly 1.2 million CalPERS and ...
The first reported data breach occurred on 5 April 2002 [8] when 250,000 social security numbers collected by the State of California were stolen from a data center. [9] Before the widespread adoption of data breach notification laws around 2005, the prevalence of data breaches is difficult to determine.