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Advocate Aurora data breach overview:
- Who: Advocate Aurora Health disclosed to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that it experienced a data breach.
- Why: The data breach may have exposed the private health information of as many as 3 million of its patients.
- Where: Advocate Aurora serves customers in Wisconsin and Illinois.
Advocate Aurora Health reported it was the victim of a data breach that may have exposed the personal health information of as many as 3 million of its Wisconsin and Illinois patients.
The health care company reported the data breach, which reportedly occurred Oct. 14, to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Advocate Aurora revealed the data breach potentially exposed personal information, including IP addresses, patients’ medical providers and dates and locations of scheduled appointments.
The Advocate Aurora data breach did not expose patients’ Social Security or financial information, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
The breach could reportedly lead to potentially exposed personal health information, which is protected by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), with companies such as Facebook and Google.
Advocate Aurora disclosed it uses online tracking technologies like Google and Facebook to collect data on certain patient website interactions, including “patient portals” on its LiveWell and MyChart applications and websites.
Company disables tracking pixels in wake of Advocate Aurora data breach
The health care company says in the disclosure notice that it deactivated the pixels used to track patients in response to the data breach.
“We have disabled and/or removed the pixels from our platforms and launched an internal investigation to better understand what patient information was transmitted to our vendors,” Advocate Aurora says in the notice.
Advocate Aurora also says it has no evidence the tracking pixels caused the data breach and that it will make improvements and enhancements to its security and information systems where appropriate.
“These pixels would be very unlikely to result in identity theft or any financial harm, and we have no evidence of misuse or incidents of fraud stemming from this incident,” the company states.
Last year, an individual filed a class action lawsuit against Advocate Aurora and its hospital Advocate Christ Medical Center, arguing the hospital allowed his deceased mothers data to be hacked. The case was later dismissed.
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12 thoughts onAdvocate Aurora data breach exposes up to 3 million patients’ personal data
My information has also been affected by data breach one the hospital is broken into a computers were stolen taken all information on those computers were compromised too I all my stuff is through through them so all of my medical information has been exposed or what have you and I have been through many surgeries and so much information so much information had so many different affiliated hospitals and doctors offices
I have the LiveWell app. My data was breached. I just made a fraud report to Medicare. Is there a lawsuit? These people knew all of my data!
I have the LiveWell app. My data was breached. I just made a fraud report to Medicare. Is there a lawsuit? These people knew all of my data!
Add me I use the live well app frequently for communicating with my doctor’s and getting test results etc. Have been for years.
I have the app on my phone also for years. I’m praying my information has not been out there.
With our medical information being accessed the HIPAA violation needs to be addressed.
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I have the app on my phone with all of my information on the app. I just had a notification tonight that someone did a background check on me now I’m seeing this? What in the the world? This isn’t acceptable. Please help. This goes against HIPAA too.
HIPAA was destroyed with Rowe v Wade. We have no medical privacy left.
We definitely need it back & fast. We’re exposed to all types of mess & I’m sick of being bothered by these unwanted calls, emails etc.
I have the LiveWell app., all of my information is on there!!! I see many doctors and I have many video appointments. All my test results, doctor visit summaries, doctors notes, medications, and my signature from every visit check in process. I am so worried. What should I do?
Advocate Christ is my hospital, my doctor is on staff there and all of my records are in there computers.