US Wyoming Medical Center Feb 2016 Hacking (Q16403)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | US Wyoming Medical Center Feb 2016 Hacking |
A data breach risk event |
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February 2016
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Wyoming Medical Center informs 3,200 patients of email breach - Two Wyoming Medical Center employees fell for phishing schemes in February, potentially exposing the information of 3,184 patients. They had access to the employees emails for 15 minutes, he said. The hospital could tell the email systems had been compromised within minutes because the accounts had sent spam emails to other hospital employees. The records in the email system contained patient names, medical record numbers, account numbers, dates of hospital service, birth dates and some medical information (English)
