ANN ARBOR, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - Michigan Medicine is notifying astir 33,850 patients astir worker email accounts that were compromised which whitethorn person exposed immoderate of their wellness information.
The wellness strategy says a cyber attacker targeted employees with an email "phishing" scam from Aug. 15-22. They were sent a nexus that promoted employees to participate their Michigan Medicine login information.
"Four Michigan Medicine employees entered their login accusation and past inappropriately accepted multifactor authentication prompts which allowed the cyber attacker to entree their Michigan Medicine email accounts," reads a property release.
Michigan Medicine learned the email accounts were compromised connected Aug. 23 and instantly disabled them.
The wellness strategy says nary grounds during the probe suggested the intent of the onslaught was to get diligent wellness accusation from the compromised email accounts, but information theft could not beryllium ruled out.
A reappraisal of each the compromised emails to find if delicate information was leaked was completed connected Oct. 17.
Patients affected by the incidental volition beryllium notified by letters which volition beryllium mailed betwixt Oct. 19-26.
Some emails and attachments included identifiable diligent accusation specified as: name, address, day of birth, diagnostic and attraction information, and wellness security information.
No fiscal accusation similar recognition card, debit card, oregon slope relationship numbers were recovered successful the emails.
Since the incident, Michigan Medicine updated its email strategy to diagnostic further method safeguards to forestall a akin aboriginal attack.
The wellness strategy says it volition proceed worker grooming and acquisition to admit scam emails erstwhile they brushwood them. The employees progressive successful the incidental are taxable to disciplinary action, nether Michigan Medicine policies and procedures.
"Patient privateness is highly important to us, and we instrumentality this substance precise seriously. Michigan Medicine took steps instantly to analyse this substance and is implementing further safeguards to trim hazard to our patients and assistance forestall recurrence," said Jeanne Strickland, Michigan Medicine main compliance officer.
Patients who bash not person a missive and are acrophobic astir the breach tin telephone the toll-free Michigan Medicine Assistance Line astatine 1-833-814-1736. betwixt 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday done Friday.
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