CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents
A Chicago-based Fertility Centers of Illinois (FCI) has suffered a data breach, impacting 79,943 current and former patients. According to a breach notification by FCI, the incident did not compromise its electronic medical records system, however, an unauthorized third party secured access to some of the patients’ protected health information (PHI) and private files belonging to FCI employees.
FCI detected the breach on its internal systems on Feb 01, 2021, and took instant action to secure its systems. Independent forensic specialists were then hired to determine the nature and scope of the security breach. Fertility Centers of Illinois reported the data breach to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), affecting nearly 80,000 current and former patients.
Although the exact modus operandi of the attack remains unknown, the compromised files contained a range of patient data, including names in combination with one or more of the following types of details:
Social Security numbers, passport numbers, financial account information, payment card information, diagnoses, treatment information, medical record
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