A US healthcare software provider has admitted that hackers may have made off with sensitive data belonging to 3.8 million people, making it the largest healthcare breach reported to regulators so far this year.
The attack dates to last October, when Ohio-based medical software maker Unlimited Technology Systems (UTS) detected someone poking around its commercial datacenter. The company disclosed the breach in July but did not initially say how many people were affected.
The scale is now clearer. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services’ breach portal, the incident affected the protected health information of 3,803,750 people.
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Source: The Register News
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