Hospital Network Security Breach (1 Viewer)

[TheIronSheik]

Link

Glad to see that the hospital I went to for my broken leg and my kidney stone is named specifically in this list of hospitals.

As for exposed victims protecting themselves? There's little they can do.

Great.

 

[El Floppo]

you're on vacation- worry about this next week.

 

[TheIronSheik]

you're on vacation- worry about this next week.

Not on vacation. Was just taking a long weekend.

 

[El Floppo]

you're on vacation- worry about this next week.

Not on vacation. Was just taking a long weekend.

oh, ok.

better start panicking.

 

[Mister CIA]

I correctly guessed the name of the company before clicking the link. Not surprised in the least.

 

[SacramentoBob]

So your AIDS test is public knowledge now?

 

[jonessed]

This is the downside to massive health record databases.

 

[TheIronSheik]

So your AIDS test is public knowledge now?

“The company has confirmed that this data did not include patient, credit card, medical, or clinical information,” Community Health said in a statement filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. “It includes patient names, addresses, birthdates, telephone numbers, and social security numbers.”

Luckily, no. No one knows about that.

 

[hagmania]

Been pretty quiet around the office today.

 

[Mister CIA]

So these "sophisticated" Chinese hackers know about my gout. I'll get over it.

A more interesting question is, do they know anything about the doctor who treated me, and the treatments he/she/it prescribed? My educated guess is that every doctor affiliated with this company is exposed, profoundly.

 

[Kanil]

My companies largest competitor (probably shouldn't say who it is) was recently shut down by the gov't for a big data breach... good news for us!

 

[Da Guru]

Link

Glad to see that the hospital I went to for my broken leg and my kidney stone is named specifically in this list of hospitals.

As for exposed victims protecting themselves? There's little they can do.

Great.

Time to go back to pen and paper reports and billing.

 

[TheIronSheik]

So these "sophisticated" Chinese hackers know about my gout. I'll get over it.

A more interesting question is, do they know anything about the doctor who treated me, and the treatments he/she/it prescribed? My educated guess is that every doctor affiliated with this company is exposed, profoundly.

As I posted, they did not get medical records. They got Social Security numbers and other patient information. They don't care about your gout. They want your info so they can open fraudulent accounts under your name.

 

[Mister CIA]

So these "sophisticated" Chinese hackers know about my gout. I'll get over it.

A more interesting question is, do they know anything about the doctor who treated me, and the treatments he/she/it prescribed? My educated guess is that every doctor affiliated with this company is exposed, profoundly.

As I posted, they did not get medical records. They got Social Security numbers and other patient information. They don't care about your gout. They want your info so they can open fraudulent accounts under your name.

While they did not access the clinical databases, the patient accounting/billing databases do contain billing codes which map to medical conditions, and they also join to physicians (and I'm pretty sure that within these files there is personal information about physicians). I'm not an identify thief but I would think stealing physician IDs opens up some mighty big doors.

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

So these "sophisticated" Chinese hackers know about my gout. I'll get over it.

A more interesting question is, do they know anything about the doctor who treated me, and the treatments he/she/it prescribed? My educated guess is that every doctor affiliated with this company is exposed, profoundly.

As I posted, they did not get medical records. They got Social Security numbers and other patient information. They don't care about your gout. They want your info so they can open fraudulent accounts under your name.

While they did not access the clinical databases, the patient accounting/billing databases do contain billing codes which map to medical conditions, and they also join to physicians (and I'm pretty sure that within these files there is personal information about physicians). I'm not an identify thief but I would think stealing physician IDs opens up some mighty big doors.

Potentially DEA numbers for electronic prescriptions?

 

[Fennis]

So these "sophisticated" Chinese hackers know about my gout. I'll get over it.

A more interesting question is, do they know anything about the doctor who treated me, and the treatments he/she/it prescribed? My educated guess is that every doctor affiliated with this company is exposed, profoundly.

As I posted, they did not get medical records. They got Social Security numbers and other patient information. They don't care about your gout. They want your info so they can open fraudulent accounts under your name.

That's why I always give my SN# as 69-69-6969