US Western Montana Clinic Mar 2015 Hacking (Q16857)
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A data breach risk event
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US Western Montana Clinic Mar 2015 Hacking
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A data breach risk event
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March 2015
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Full credit card information for 44 patients was available to hackers who gained access to the Western Montana Clinic website last month. The hackers also were able to access demographic and partial credit card information for nearly 7,000 patients. However the hackers didnt gain access to patients medical records, which are housed in a different system, Western Montana Clinic CEO Valeri Saffer said. We are very fortunate that no medical information was available on the site that would have been hacked, she said. It appears the hackers, who call themselves the Moroccan Agent Secrets, werent looking for personal information, but were looking for site vulnerability, Saffer explained. Ive been told a good hacker can get into anywhere, she said. Saffer said the hackers bypassed security measu (English)
