Personal information of potentially tens of millions of people HCA Medical patients have been stolen and sold on data breach forums since earlier this week.
HCA, the largest US company, Admitted First offense of the day. The release warned patients that sensitive personal information such as names, cities, and when and where they last saw a healthcare provider had been compromised.
Shares of the health-care giant closed more than 1.4% in Monday trading and unchanged after hours.
The donor claimed that no clinical information was disclosed.
But DataBreaches.net report On Monday, an anonymous hacking group announced it had provided a sample data set of “low-risk” lung cancer assessments of patients, which qualifies the HCA’s assessment that no critical or protected health information has been compromised. will obviously be lost.
The hack affected patients in about 24 states, including patients at dozens of facilities in Florida and Texas. About the data sale, his New Zealand-based Emsisoft analyst Brett Callow warned on his Twitter.
“This is one of the biggest healthcare-related breaches of the year and potentially one of the biggest in history. “It may not be as harmful as other breaches, even though it’s being compromised. It doesn’t seem to affect diagnostics or other medical information,” Callow told CNBC.
“However, the hackers claim to have ’emails containing health checks corresponding to client IDs,'” Callow said.
Patient data breaches are not uncommon, but they vary in scope and impact. HCA’s breach apparently did not involve sensitive medical records, and the company said the compromised data originated from an “external storage location used solely to automate the formatting of email messages.” rice field.