US healthcare provider Kootenai Health has revealed that data belonging to 464,000 patients has been compromised following a cyber attack.
The non-profit health system, based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, said it was alerted to a potential data breach in March 2024 after noticing “unusual activity that disrupted access to certain IT systems”. Following an investigation, Kootenai Health discovered that malicious actors had breached its systems on 22 February 2024, compromising data including “individuals’ names along with dates of birth, social security numbers, driver’s license etc.
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Source: Digital Health
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