US St. Vincent health system Dec 2015 Social Engineering (Q15934)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | US St. Vincent health system Dec 2015 Social Engineering |
A data breach risk event |
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December 2015
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How many breaches, how many compromises of patients confidential medical information does it take before there are some questions asked of an organization and its security policies? One health system, for instance, recently announced its seventh large HIPAA breach. The 20-hospital St. Vincent health system in Indianapolis, part of Ascension Health, most recently notified 760 of its medical group patients that their Social Security numbers and clinical data was compromised in an email phishing incident. The breach, which was discovered by hospital officials back in December 2014, marked the seventh breach for the health system in a less than five years. t wasnt until March 12, 2015, that officials said they discovered which patients were impacted by the breach, which involved the compromis (English)
