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Illinois Gastroenterology Group, PLLC discovered unusual activity within its computer network

Exploit: Hacking

Illinois Gastroenterology Group (IGG): Healthcare Provider

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Risk to Business: 1.917 = Severe

Illinois Gastroenterology Group (IGG) announced that it has experienced a data security problem that potentially impacted 227,943 individuals. IGG disclosed that it had discovered unusual network activity on October 22, 2021, and that it believed that information may have been stolen. IGG also said it had no evidence of related identity theft or fraud.

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Risk to Individual: 1.929 = Severe

The stolen data includes patient names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport information, financial account information, addresses, payment card information, biometric data, employer-assigned identification numbers and medical information.

How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business This type of incident is expensive in more ways than one and will spin out into a long, draining regulatory nightmare.

Source: illinois gastro