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(Follow-up) Akron Children's Hospital
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:51:20 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/15871658.htm Hackers broke into Akron Children's Hospital computer files over Labor Day weekend, potentially accessing names, addresses, birth dates, and Social Security numbers of about 230,000 patients and their families, as well as a database containing the bank-account information of about 12,000 donors. The hospital began notifying the families on Wednesday -- seven weeks after the breach was discovered -- by sending out 10,000 letters, followed by 120,000 more on Friday. The remaining 100,000 notifications will be sent Monday. [...] https://www.akronchildrens.org/cms/site/16e6640c0d4a89d8/index.html Akron Children's Hospital recently identified that during an expansion of its computer systems, there were unauthorized entries (breaches) into two separate computer databases. The first database contained personal information of our patients, and of the parents or guardians who provide their health insurance. This personal information included names, addresses, social security numbers and patient birth dates. We have found no evidence that any medical or financial patient information was exposed. The second breach involved a server containing information about individuals who have made donations to the hospital. This breach may have exposed personal financial information, specifically some unencrypted bank account and routing numbers. Social security numbers were not included in this database, and credit card information was protected through the highest level of encryption. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 139 million compromised records in 447 incidents over 6 years.
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