Presbyterian Healthcare phishing scam hits 183K patient records

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https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/presbyterian-healthcare-phishing-scam-hits-183k-patient-records

By Nathan Eddy
Healthcare IT News
August 28, 2019

Presbyterian Healthcare announced that a phishing attack targeting its 
employees might have led to more than 183,000 patient records being exposed, 
the organization announced.


WHY IT MATTERS

The health system, which is based in New Mexico and operates nine hospitals 
statewide, issued a statement on its website confirming the email phishing scam 
and noting it had secured the affected email accounts.

The statement also said the organization has already begun a "thorough review" 
of the impacted emails and alerted federal law enforcement agencies, and also 
detailed the attack, which was initially discovered in June but occurred in 
May.

The statement explained the anonymous, unauthorized access from an unknown 
source was gained through a deceptive email to some of Presbyterian's workforce 
members.

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