The healthcare giant claimed that no 'clinical' information was breached by the hackers, a claim undercut by sample data provided to an industry analyst.
Healthcare patients has been stolen and is now available for sale on a data breach forum as of earlier this week.the breach earlier today. In a release, it warned patients that critical personal information had been compromised, including their full name, city, and when and where they last saw a provider.
Monday that the unnamed hacking group provided them with a sample set of data about a patient's "low risk" lung cancer assessment, which would apparently undercut HCA's assessment that no material or protected health information was breached. "This may be biggest healthcare-related breaches of the year, and one of the biggest of all time. That said, despite affecting millions of people, it may not be as harmful as other breaches as, based on HCA's statement, it doesn't seem to have impacted diagnoses or other medical information," Callow told CNBC.
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