Decatur County General Hospital

Decatur County General Hospital

An unauthorized software had been installed on the server the vendor supports on their behalf.

The unauthorized software was installed to generate cryptocurrency.

Information compromised included demographic information such as patient names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers.

It also included clinical information such as diagnosis and treatment information, and other information such as insurance billing information.

In response to the incident, DCGH offered the patients an online credit monitoring service for one year.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/tennessee-hospital-notifies-24000-patients-after-emr-system-attacked-with-cryptocurrency-mining-software/

"id": "DEC11367622",
"linkid": "decatur-county-general-hospital",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "02/2018",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
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