A knowledge breach at Connecticut’s largest healthcare system Yale New Haven Health impacts greater than 5.5 million folks, in keeping with a legally required discover with the U.S. authorities’s well being division.
Yale New Haven stated the March cyberattack allowed malicious hackers to acquire copies of sufferers’ personally identifiable data and a few healthcare-related information.
Per a discover on the healthcare system’s web site, the stolen information varies by individual, however can embody affected person names, dates of beginning, postal and e-mail addresses, cellphone quantity, race and ethnicity information, and Social Security numbers. The stolen information additionally consists of details about kinds of sufferers and medical report numbers.
Local media quoted the healthcare system’s spokesperson as saying that the variety of affected people “might change.” A spokesperson for Yale New Haven didn’t instantly remark when contacted by TechCrunch.
This is the second main healthcare information breach confirmed this week, after Blue Shield of California revealed it shared well being information of 4.7 million sufferers with Google over a number of years.
