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San Antonio doctors notify 2,000 patients of data breach that compromised SSNs, financial and medical info
Consultants in Pain Medicine yesterday confirmed it notified 2,062 Texans about a June 2024 data breach that compromised the following patient info: Names Social Security numbers Dates of Birth Driver’s license or other state-issued ID number Financial account into Passport numbers Medical info Health insurance policy info Ransomware gang Inc claimed responsibility for the attack in August 2024. To prove…
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AI chatbots outperform doctors in diagnosing patients, study finds
Chatbots quickly surpassed human physicians in diagnostic reasoning — the crucial first step in clinical care — according to a new study published in the journal Nature Medicine. The study suggests physicians who have access to large language models (LLMs), which underpin generative AI (genAI) chatbots, demonstrate improved performance on several patient care tasks compared to colleagues without access to the…
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US health system notifies 882,000 patients of August 2023 breach
Hospital Sisters Health System notified over 882,000 patients that an August 2023 cyberattack led to a data breach that exposed their personal and health information. Established in 1875, HSHS works with over 2,200 physicians and has around 12,000 employees. It also operates a network of physician practices and 15 local hospitals across Illinois and Wisconsin, including two children’s hospitals. The…
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850,000 patients may have been affected in the Globe Life breach after firm revises victim list
American insurance firm Globe Life has warned that another 855,000 people were potentially impacted by a cyber attack last summer — not the original 5,000 initially reported. Last summer, Globe Life spotted that cyber criminals had accessed customer data, reportedly via an online portal. The insurance company — one of the biggest and oldest in the US — filed a…
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Another Healthcare Data Breach Compromised a Million Patients’ Information
Credit: Dolores M. Harvey/Shutterstock The healthcare sector is one of the most common targets for hackers and cyber criminals, and yet another data breach has put the personal data of more than a million patients at risk. Community Health Center (CHC), a nonprofit healthcare provider in Connecticut, has disclosed that hackers gained access to its system in October and stole…
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US healthcare provider data breach impacts 1 million patients
Community Health Center (CHC), a leading Connecticut healthcare provider, is notifying over 1 million patients of a data breach that impacted their personal and health data. The non-profit organization provides primary medical, dental, and mental health services to more than 145,000 active patients. CHC said in a Thursday filing with Maine’s attorney general that unknown attackers gained access to its…
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US healthcare provider data breach impacts 1 million patients
Community Health Center (CHC), a leading Connecticut healthcare provider, is notifying over 1 million patients of a data breach that impacted their personal and health data. The non-profit organization provides primary medical, dental, and mental health services to more than 145,000 active patients. CHC said in a Thursday filing with Maine’s attorney general that unknown attackers gained access to its…
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Largest US addiction treatment provider notifies patients of data breach
BayMark Health Services, North America’s largest provider of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery services, is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that attackers stole their personal and health information in a September 2024 breach. The Texas-based organization provides medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services targeting both substance use and mental health disorders to more than 75,000 patients daily in over…
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Rehab hospitals in MA and NH notify patients of data breach that compromised medical info and SSNs
Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital Network yesterday confirmed it notified 22,514 people in Massachusetts of a May 2024 data breach that compromised the following info: Names Contact info Social Security numbers Patient ID numbers Medical record numbers Medical info Treatment info Diagnosis info Health insurance info Driver’s license numbers Financial account info Dates of birth Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital Network (NRHN) operates locations…
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Orange County hospital notifies 600 patients of data breach that compromised SSNs
College Hospital Costa Mesa this week confirmed it notified 591 people about an August 2024 data breach that compromised patients’ names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, and other info. Ransomware gang LockBit claimed responsibility for the attack on September 24, 2024, saying it stole 1090 GB of data from the hospital. LockBit gave the Orange County hospital until…
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