Central Florida Inpatient Medicine is a medical clinic based out of Lake Mary, Florida. They have more than 350 different providers certified to work in more than 25 hospitals and 150 different medical facilities around Florida.
Central Florida Inpatient Medicine is admitting to a data breach. The healthcare services provider suffered an email data breach. Here's a brief look at how the attack occurred and the damage it caused.
A third-party obtained access to a Central Florida Inpatient Medicine employee email account. The employee in question worked at the Central Florida Inpatient Medicine's hospitalist group in Lake Mary, Florida. The breach was identified in the first week of May.
This breach occurred from August to September 2021.
The breach impacts customers of the medical group. Though the breach also harms the company's reputation, it will remain in business simply because the demand for healthcare exceeds the supply. The hackers stole patient personal information, protected health information, treatment records, diagnoses, financial account information, and even social security numbers.
The healthcare services provider responded to the attack by enhancing its cybersecurity safeguards. The organization invested in employee digital security training, multifactor authentication for system access, and more.
Hackers accessed nearly 20,000 patient files in the attack. However, Central Florida Inpatient Medicine representatives went out of their way to highlight the fact that the attacks did not compromise the entirety of its patient database.
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