Attack first detected on December 4th 2014!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Ionut Ilascu 17 Mar 2015
Identity protection offered for free to some of the patients
Personal information, including billing account numbers, of about 14,000 patients of the Sacred Heart hospitals in Florida has been exposed in a cyber-attack on a third-party billing vendor used by the health care organization.
News of the incident emerged on February 2, 2015, when the vendor contacted Sacred Heart and informed that an employee’s email account containing data on the affected patients had been compromised.
Attack was detected on December 4, 2014
The information exposed included patient names, dates of service, dates of birth, diagnosis and procedures, billing account numbers, total charges, and the names of the treating physicians.
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