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Beacon Health Three Rivers has reached out to its patients regarding a data breach.
The hospital issued a notice earlier this week to potentially affected patients. According to the letter, the company CPS Solutions – which oversees pharmacy operations – provided notice of a cybersecurity incident dating to early December.
According to a letter sent to patients possibly affected by the incident, CPS Solutions was made aware of unauthorized access to patient records between Dec. 2 and Dec. 4.
CPS said access was gained by an unknown third party to an employee’s business e-mail account. In January, CPS completed a review resulting in the identification of all customers and individuals potentially affected by the breach. CPS notified Beacon Health Three Rivers Feb. 10.
Information such as Social Security and driver’s license numbers, credit and debit card information, bank account details and hospital medical records were not compromised.
CPS is offering affected individuals two years of free credit monitoring and identity-protection services.
Two yeays of monitoring instead of the usual one year via a 3rd rate security company?
Must’ve been one heck of a breach! Fourth reported breach to hit our family in a year, but everyone forces us to use their portals, eight so far and rising. Businesses and government coercing us into going completely digital: finances, health, legal and personal info, facial recognition, biometrics and AI. What could go wrong?