{"id":2130,"date":"2021-06-04T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T05:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2021-07-13T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T02:26:17","slug":"scripps-health-notifies-patients-of-data-breach-after-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/scripps-health-notifies-patients-of-data-breach-after-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Scripps Health announce data breach of more than 147,000 patients information after ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2130\" class=\"elementor elementor-2130\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-61adeae elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"61adeae\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8e8d950\" data-id=\"8e8d950\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cdf7d24 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cdf7d24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On 1st of June 2021, the nonprofit healthcare provider, Scripps Health announced they experienced a data breach involving personal and financial information of more than 147,000 patients, staff, and physicians. In an email notifying their patients of the incident, Scripps Health stated on 1st of May 2021, an unauthorized user had gained access to their network and taken copies of documents containing personal and financial information before deploying ransomware that took their systems offline.<\/p><p>&#8220;For certain patients, this information included one or more of their names, addresses, dates of birth, health insurance information, medical record numbers, patient account numbers, and\/or clinical information, such as physician name, date(s) of service, and\/or treatment information,&#8221; warns Scripps Health.<\/p><p>The ransomware attack caused the healthcare provider to suspend their IT systems, including public-facing portals, including MyScripps and scripps.org. This resulted in Scripps Health making the decision to divert critical patients (stroke, heart attack, and trauma patients) to other facilities while some non-urgent appointments were also delayed in the days following the attack.<\/p><p>Scripps Health made clear that the incident \u201cdid not result in unauthorized access to Scripps\u2019 electronic medical record application, Epic. However, health information and personal financial information was acquired through other documents stored on our network\u201d. Even though it was less than 2.5% of patients had their Social Security numbers and drivers\u2019 license numbers affected, the healthcare provider has offered a free one-year subscription to credit monitoring and identity protection services to those who were affected.<\/p><p>Currently it is unknown which ransomware group is responsible for conducting the attack, and none of the stolen data has been publicly released yet.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonprofit healthcare provider, Scripps Health in San Diego, has disclosed a data breach exposing patient information after suffering a ransomware attack last month. The healthcare provider has five hospitals and 19 outpost facilities with over 3,000 affiliate physicians. Every year, Scripps Health treats more than 700,000 patients. On April 29th, Scripps Health suffered a cyberattack where threat actors deployed ransomware<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,16,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news","category-read_article","category-read_case_studies","category-ce_news","category-ce_read"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cyberenso.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/medical-781422_1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C782&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4635,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/4635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}