Data breach at healthcare tech firm impacts 4.5 million patients

HealthEC LLC, a provider of health management solutions, suffered a data breach that impacts close to 4.5 million individuals who received care through one of the company's customers.
HealthEC provides a population health management platform that healthcare organizations can use for data integration, analytics, care coordination, patient engagement, compliance, and reporting.
On December 22, the firm disclosed that it suffered a data breach between July 14 and 23, 2023, which resulted in unauthorized access to some of its systems.
Medical information Health insurance information Billing and claims information.
At the time of the cyberattack, HealthEC didn't specify how many people were impacted by the intrusion, but a submission to Maine's Attorney General's office that concerned just one of the firm's clients, MD Valuecare, set the number of affected persons to 112,005.
A new listing that appeared earlier today on the breach portal of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shows the larger picture, informing that the total number of affected individuals is 4,452,782.
There are 17 healthcare service providers and state-level health systems that were impacted by the cyberattack on the HealthEC tech solutions provider.
Some major organizations listed in the notice include Corewell Health, HonorHealth, Beaumont ACO, State of Tennessee - Division of TennCare, the University Medical Center of Princeton Physicians' Organization, and the Alliance for Integrated Care of New York.
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This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:25:11 +0000


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