NYC Health and Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people
New York public health provider NYC Health and Hospitals says a months-long data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal data, medical records, and fingerprints scans affects at least 1.8 million people.
NYCHHC is the largest public health system in the United States and provides healthcare to over a million New Yorkers, the majority of whom are uninsured or receive state healthcare benefits, such as Medicaid.
The healthcare system reported the number to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, making it one of the largest healthcare-related data breaches of the year so far. Healthcare organizations have been repeatedly targeted by financially motivated cybercriminals in recent years in efforts to steal their vast banks of highly sensitive patients’ personal, medical, and billing information.
In a data breach notice on its website, NYCHHC said that it detected a cyberattack on February 2 and secured its network. The hackers had...
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