Accellion breach exposed data from patients at major Michigan hospital system

A major Michigan hospital system on Friday notified roughly 1,500 patients that their information may have been exposed as a result of a hack against file-sharing service Accellion. The law firm Goodwin Proctor notified Beaumont Health in February that patient data shared by the hospital with legal counsel may have been entangled in the wide-reaching hack through the firm’s use of Accellion. Beaumonth Health is a network of health facilities that reported $4.58 billion in total revenue for 2020. A follow-up investigation by Beaumont found that impacted patient health data included patient name, procedure name, physician name, internal medical record number and dates of service. No patient financial information was impacted, the hospital stated in a press release. Beaumont Health joins a list of at least 11 healthcare organizations that were affected by a December breach of the file sharing service Accellion. Two of the victims, Kroger Pharmacy and healthcare insurer […]

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