Exploit: Hacking
Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services (RMCHCS): Health Non-Profit
Risk to Business: 1.833= Severe
Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services (RMCHCS) has reported a data breach reported caused by improper access to data impacting around 200,000 patients and employees. RMCHCS operates a 60-bed acute care hospital and four clinics providing emergency care, cancer care, and hospice and pediatric services in Arizona and New Mexico. The company did not say how the data was improperly accessed.
Risk to Business: 1.833= Severe
RMCHCS states that the breached material includes names, dates of birth, postal addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses, as well as Social Security, driver’s license, passport and (for Native Americans) tribal ID numbers. Healthcare-specific details of patient care were also involved, but it’s not consistent across accounts. Healthcare data potentially impacted may include medical record numbers, dates of service and healthcare provider names; prescription, treatment, and diagnosis information; and billing and claims information, including financial account information.
Customers Impacted: 200,000
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business Data theft is always a problem, but theft of medical data is a disaster for healthcare orgs that will have to pay major fines for security failures.