US Carolinas Medical CenterRandolph 2012 Hacking (Q16488)
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A data breach risk event
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US Carolinas Medical CenterRandolph 2012 Hacking
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A data breach risk event
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January 2012
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The private information of some 5,600 patients of Carolinas Medical Center-Randolph might have been accessed by a computer hacker, according to hospital officials. Carolinas HealthCare System notified those patients plus, as a precautionary measure, another 700 additional patients of the breach, a hospital news release said Friday. The hacker accessed the information by obtaining incoming and outgoing emails from a providers account, according to the release. Officials discovered the security breach Oct. 8, after a security software upgrade. Five affected emails contained Social Security numbers, and a number of the emails included medical and other patient information, the release said. That information included patient names, medical record and account numbers, dates of birth and treatm (English)
