2 more healthcare agencies have reported cyber attacks that resulted in unauthorized access to patient information, but the two providers took decidedly different approaches in offering protective services to affected people after breaches.
Princeton Pain Management in Plainsboro, N.J., discovered on the day of Nov. 28, 2016, that a third party gained unauthorized access to its computer system, and the data at risk included some 4,668 patients.
Compromised health information involved names, telephone numbers, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security or Medicare numbers, driver license or government identification numbers, insurance information, and diagnostic and treatment information.
Despite the sensitivity of much of the data included in the breach, the agency’s announcement didn’t involve an offer of credit or identity protection services after breaches.
Princeton Pain Management, which used its declaration to provide sufferers with information on how to secure themselves, didn’t respond to a request for extra information on the tragedy or its response.
Six-hospital Verity Health System in California is notifying more than 9,000 people after protected health information was accessed by an unauthorized person. On the day of Jan. 6, 2017, the agency tracked the hack of its Verity Medical Foundation-San Jose Medical Group web site that is no longer being used. Access was discovered to have originated between the time period of October 2015 and January 2017.
Compromised patient information involved the dates of birth, names, medical record numbers, home addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of credit card numbers. Social Security numbers and complete credit card information wasn’t being compromised, the organization says.
Verity Health System is providing 1 year of credit monitoring services. The organization didn’t respond to a request for extra information on the breach or remediation attempts.
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