Names, addresses, birth dates, phone numbers and social insurance numbers of over 9000 patients hospitalized Concord has been on the Internet for over a month and the hospital, the President said, there is no way of knowing who was whether all were criminals.The hospital letters Friday notifying patients and 9297 confirmed the breach Saturday to Concord Monitor. A statement posted Sunday on its Web site, “said Concord hospital has worked for possible future security lapses.
Concord Hospital said Verus, Inc., a provider of online billing, which is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, the disabled electronic firewall to protect information on 12 April for maintenance work, then left, if accidentally turned off. Concord Hospital Verus announcement of the injury, May 30.
Concord Hospital president and CE0 Michael Green said credit card and medical data were not suspended. But the hospitalization of patients with urgent measures to guard against fraud and identity theft, because personal data was eight times.
“We have no way of knowing if someone would have the database and try to use them for illicit purposes,” he said.
Green said the hospital waited a week to inform patients because it was not certain that many people were affected until Thursday and wanted to study in its own.
“We had our own research, we were able to determine with precision and was hit,” Green said. “We also have some of our own research to try, make sure we understood the magnitude of the problem, and it has the best part of a week and then, of course, we have a draft letter and give you letters of the e-mail. ”
The hospital has the letter and trial attorneys, the Bureau of Consumer Protection, on Friday. Officials recommended that patients news of the town of fraud in their lines of credit files using one of three major credit agencies reporting.
“We reacted as quickly as we, if we have knowledge of the situation,” said Green. “I’m really regret any inconvenience that this will ensure that for each of our patients.”
Concord Hospital is the only hospital in New Hampshire, the injury, he said.
Green said that the ruins of security was due to human error, the hospital in an interview with lawyers and the search for a new line billing suppliers. At the same time, he turned off for an indefinite period its “My Account” Web payment.