Amedisys

Amedisys Home Health of Fayetteville suffered from a data breach incident that exposed patient information.

As soon as they were made aware of the occurrence, Amedisys recovered the bins and hired a business to salvage and restore the documents so that they could be inventoried.

Amedisys also provided an identity theft protection product to help impacted patients protect their identity and credit information.

Source: https://www.montgomery-herald.com/news/amedisys-announces-patient-info-breach/article_4180ef04-224e-11e7-9dfe-4f67beb1512c.html

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/amedisys

"id": "ame22921822",
"linkid": "amedisys",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "04/2017",
"severity": "50",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Healthcare',
                        'location': 'Fayetteville',
                        'name': 'Amedisys Home Health of Fayetteville',
                        'type': 'Healthcare Provider'}],
 'customer_advisories': ['Provided an identity theft protection product to '
                         'impacted patients'],
 'data_breach': {'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Patient Information']},
 'description': 'Amedisys Home Health of Fayetteville suffered from a data '
                'breach incident that exposed patient information.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Patient Information'],
            'identity_theft_risk': 'High'},
 'response': {'remediation_measures': ['Recovered the bins',
                                       'Inventoried the documents'],
              'third_party_assistance': ['Hired a business to salvage and '
                                         'restore the documents']},
 'title': 'Amedisys Home Health Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}