Healthcare services offered by the government and private agencies took a serious hit this week with breaches against Johns Hopkins, Essen Health Care, Atrium Health at Wake Forest, and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. Patients lost a significant amount of both personal and health information in this breach as a result. The Bank of NY Mellon was also a breach victim this week. Read below for the details.
Atrium Health is a major health services provider for primary care and specialty care at Wake Forest in North Carolina. The service provides care to thousands of individuals and manages data for all those people. Some of that data was recently lost to a data breach that's left patients, doctors, and staff members uncertain and concerned. The breach occurred quickly and created some issues that anyone relying on Atrium Health should be aware of.
The Bank of NY Mellon is one of the largest financial institutions in the world and the largest custodian bank in the world. The company is based in 35 countries, manages $1.9 Trillion in assets, and generates more than $16 Billion in annual revenue. This mammoth bank just suffered from a data breach that exposed consumer data to the public. The data taken could result in identity theft issues and more. The Emerson Law Firm is currently investigating this data breach.
Essen Health Care is a massive healthcare network of facilities and providers throughout New York City, Staten Island, and Westchester County. With more than 300 providers at a range of facilities connected to Essen Health Care, the organization maintains and stores a huge amount of medical and personal data for patients, providers, faculty, and more. All this data is protected by security features, but it was exposed in a recent breach.
Johns Hopkins is one of the leading teaching hospitals that serve approximately 500 medical students annually while caring for tens of thousands of patients. The facility has a total of 1091 beds and serves patients in primary care and trauma care, along with several specialties. The facility is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and because it serves so many students and patients, it stores a huge amount of personal and medical data. Some of that data was just released because of a breach.
The Utah Medicaid office offers healthcare to qualifying patients throughout the state. These patients rely on the organization to provide them with their medical insurance and to offer other services to them. While providing those services, the organization maintains health and wellness information as well as personal data. That's why it's concerning that the Utah Medicaid office recently experienced a self-caused data breach.
Data breaches are becoming more prevalent and serious each week in 2023, but this week was a bad one for the MOVEit file transfer service, as well as medical organizations and schools and school districts. Anyone utilizing MOVEit should immediately patch the service for their protection, but we're going to go into specifics about that breach, as well as breaches impacting the Pearland, Texas school district, Intellihartx, the MN Department of Education, and the Utah Medicaid system.
The Minnesota Department of Education oversees public schools throughout the state and manages data for special programs for the students at these organizations. The organization works with thousands of schools throughout the state and manages some data from students at many of these locations. For those reasons, the MDE is a prime target for data thieves looking to exploit students and their parents, and that's exactly what just happened.
Nearly 500,000 people lost medical and personal data in a recent ransomware attack on Intellihartx. The company is known for handling collections and patient balances for medical companies. The organization suffered a breach that lost a substantial amount of protected information for different people, and that's a serious problem that should be addressed as soon as possible.
The Pearland Independent School District spans over 23 separate campuses in the Pearland, Texas area. The district teaches over 21,000 students and employs as many as 1,771 individuals. The large district generates approximately $144 million in revenue annually and handles data for tens of thousands of students, parents, and employees.
