{"id":56415,"date":"2024-06-26T13:34:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/36035\/Microsoft-Blamed-For-Million-Plus-Patient-Record-Theft-At-US-Hospital-Giant.html"},"modified":"2024-06-26T13:34:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:34:28","slug":"microsoft-blamed-for-million-plus-patient-record-theft-at-us-hospital-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/microsoft-blamed-for-million-plus-patient-record-theft-at-us-hospital-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Blamed For Million-Plus Patient Record Theft At US Hospital Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated<\/span> American healthcare provider Geisinger fears highly personal data on more than a million of its patients has been stolen \u2013 and claimed a former employee at a Microsoft subsidiary is the likely culprit.<\/p>\n

Geisinger on Monday announced<\/a> the results of a probe into a November computer security breach, placing the blame on Microsoft-owned<\/a> Nuance Communications for not cutting off one of its employees’ access to corporate files after that person was fired.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania-based healthcare giant uses Nuance as an IT provider. We’re told that after the Microsoft-owned entity terminated one of its workers, that staffer two days later may have accessed and taken copies of sensitive records on a huge number of Geisinger patients \u2013 for reasons as yet unknown.<\/p>\n