{"id":47509,"date":"2022-07-13T21:06:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T21:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/1-9m-patient-records-exposed-in-healthcare-debt-collector-ransomware-attack\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T21:06:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T21:06:50","slug":"1-9m-patient-records-exposed-in-healthcare-debt-collector-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/1-9m-patient-records-exposed-in-healthcare-debt-collector-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"1.9m patient records exposed in healthcare debt collector ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professional Finance Company, a Colorado-based debt collector whose customers include hundreds of US hospitals, medical clinics, and dental groups, recently disclosed that more than 1.9 million people’s private data \u2013 including names, addresses, social security numbers and health records \u2013 was exposed during a ransomware infection.<\/p>\n

In a notice [PDF<\/a>] posted on its website, PFC said it “detected and stopped a sophisticated ransomware attack” on February 26 this year, during which criminals accessed files containing data from more than 650 healthcare providers [PDF<\/a>]. The company said it notified the affected medical centers around May 5, and is mailing letters to individuals whose data may have been stolen during the intrusion. <\/p>\n

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, more than 1.9 million individuals were affected in the security breach<\/a>, which could make it one of \u2014 if not the<\/em> \u2014 biggest American medical info data breaches of the year.<\/p>\n