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About 45,000 patients in Rush University Medical Center situated in Chicago hospital had their data revealed when a third-party worker wrongly disclosed a data file comprising of the data to an unofficial person.
The Medical Center stated that the data violation most probably occurred in May 2018 when an employee at the billing processing vendors of the hospital system exposed a data file comprising the details of the patient to an unofficial person. Further, the hospital stated in an interview that the names, addresses, date of births, health insurance details and social security numbers were added in the data file. But, the hospital officials do not trust the information data has been victimized.
“Medical history, treatment, diagnosis or other patient information was not affected, and personal financial information was not shared,” Rush said.
The data violation was detected at beginning of new year on January 22 and Rush started mentioning the matter to those suffered last month in late February.
