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A leading US healthcare organization (HCO) has admitted that a phishing attack last September may have led to the compromise of highly sensitive data on nearly half a million patients. . Georgia-based Augusta University Health claimed it was notified by investigators on July 31 that a September 2017 phishing attack on hospital staff may have given the hackers access to data on around 417,000 patients. The link for this article located at InfoSecurity is no longer available. . Georgia-based Augusta University Health claimed it was notified by investigators on July 31 that a S. leading, healthcare, organization, (hco), admitted, phishing, attack, september. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Though the second half of the year has been comparably calmer than the first half's excitement over database breaches at RSA, Sony, and Epsilon, the breach numbers continued to roll in -- especially at healthcare organizations, which made up a disproportionate number of exposed records. Here are some of the biggest breaches that went down in the second half of the year, along with a few database security lessons learned.. 1. The Breach Victim: Nemours Assets Stolen/Affected: Names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, insurance data, medical treatment data, and bank account information for 1.6 million patients, vendors, and employees. Three unencrypted tapes containing a mother lode of personal information on patients, vendors, and employees were lost amid the dust of a facility remodel project when a cabinet that held them since 2004 went missing. The link for this article located at Dark Reading is no longer available. . 1. The Breach Victim: Nemours Assets Stolen/Affected: Names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Secur. though, second, comparably, calmer, first, half's, excitement. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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