Bon Secours Health System in the state of Virginia is notifying more than 650,000 sufferers of a data violation or breach after a business associate inadvertently made protected health data accessible through the Internet and exposed the data of Bon Secours sufferers.
The vendor, R-C Healthcare, was trying to fix and adjust the computer network settings in the month of April and inadvertently made files accessible for 4 days in the month of April, before Bon Secours founded the files and had R-C Healthcare eliminate them.
R-C Healthcare is a hospital Medicare wage index consultancy that assists to generate revenue by optimizing information reporting.
Protected data at risk involved the sufferer names, Social Security numbers, health insurance numbers, health insurers, a restricted amount of bank account information, and limited clinical data.
Bon Secours didn’t respond to an appeal for additional information. The regional CBS affiliate reports that the agency is providing 1 year of credit and identity theft protection facilities to consumers potentially affected by the violation.
Bon Secours has experienced 3 earlier and considerably minor or smaller breaches, entire of which have been issued on the federal government’s web site of health care breaches impacting 500 or more Bon Secours sufferers.
Those tragedies involve:
- The theft of EHRs (electronic health records data) in the month of May 2013 that affected 5,764 patients.
- The unauthorized approach and disclosure of unspecified information in the month of September 2014, affecting 696 Bon Secours sufferers.
- The unauthorized access and disclosure of electronic health record data in the month of October 2015, affecting 1,997 people.
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