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Michigan Medicine data breach overview:
- Who: Michigan Medicine revealed it was the victim of a data breach in August that may have exposed the private health information of nearly 34,000 of its patients.
- Why: The health center said the data breach was the result of a phishing scam that compromised the email addresses of four of its employees.
- Where: Michigan Medicine is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Michigan Medicine revealed last week that it was the victim of a data breach that may have exposed the private health information of around 34,000 of its patients.
Potentially affected patients received a notification from Michigan Medicine disclosing that it suffered a data breach after a phishing scam compromised employee email accounts, MLive reports.
Michigan Medicine says the data breach occurred between Aug. 15 and Aug. 23 after hackers encouraged employees to visit a website set up to collect their login credentials.
Four Michigan Medicine employees had their email accounts compromised due to the phishing scam, according to the medical center.
Michigan Medicine says it discovered the data breach on Aug. 23 and disabled the compromised email accounts to prevent the hackers from achieving further access.
Michigan Medicine data breach compromised email addresses that contained private patient info
Information contained within the compromised email addresses included patient names, medical record numbers, birthdates, treatment and diagnostic information and health insurance information, among other things, MLive reports.
Michigan Medicine says that in its initial investigation, it did not find evidence hackers conducted the data breach to obtain patient information. It says it wrapped up a follow-up review to determine if sensitive patient data was affected on Oct. 17.
The compromised email addresses did not contain financial information such as credit card, debit card or bank account numbers; however, one patient’s Social Security number may have been exposed, according to Michigan Medicine officials.
Advocate Aurora Health also disclosed a data breach this month that it says exposed the private health information of up to 3 million of its patients.
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I received a letter stating that my info was taken due to a medical breach in marquette MI. My info was also taken 3 times by data breach at flagstar bank