The San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) is warning more than 55,000 patients served in DPH facilities that their personal information may have been compromised in a Feb. 5 breach of Sutherland Healthcare Solutions (SHS), a billing and collections services provider.
How many victims? About 55,900.
What type of personal information? Names, dates of birth, billing information, dates and locations of services, and, in some cases, Social Security numbers.
What happened? The SHS office in Southern California was broken into and computers containing the client information were stolen.
What was the response? The DPH is notifying all impacted
patients and SHS is offering them a free year of credit monitoring and
identity theft protection services.
Details: The SHS offices were broken into on Feb. 5. SHS
notified the DPH on March 18 that the information was compromised. Most
impacted patients received DPH services between August 2012 and November
2013.
Quote: “There is no confirmation that there has been any
attempted access or attempted use of the information involved in this
incident,” according to a notification posted to the DPH website.
Source: sfdph.org, “Department of Public Health Patient Information Involved in Security Breach,” March 21, 2014.
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