Dignity Health

Dignity Health

Dominican Hospital, part of Dignity Health, accedentially suffered from a data breach incident in August 2016.

The attack compromised the name, account number, admission date, length of stay, total charges, unit they were seen in, room number they were seen in, and insurance carrier name.

The health plan that received the transmission has been cooperating with the hospital and expected to provide an attestation that the errant data was destroyed.

Dominican Hospital took action and provided traning sessions to their staff and took disciplinary action.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/dominican-hospital-notifies-patients-whose-phi-was-sent-to-wrong-health-plan/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/dignity-health

"id": "dig15131522",
"linkid": "dignity-health",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "08/2016",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Healthcare',
                        'name': 'Dominican Hospital',
                        'type': 'Hospital'}],
 'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['name',
                                                         'account number',
                                                         'admission date',
                                                         'length of stay',
                                                         'total charges',
                                                         'unit they were seen '
                                                         'in',
                                                         'room number they '
                                                         'were seen in',
                                                         'insurance carrier '
                                                         'name'],
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['name',
                                              'account number',
                                              'admission date',
                                              'length of stay',
                                              'total charges',
                                              'unit they were seen in',
                                              'room number they were seen in',
                                              'insurance carrier name']},
 'date_detected': 'August 2016',
 'description': 'Dominican Hospital, part of Dignity Health, accidentally '
                'suffered from a data breach incident in August 2016. The '
                'attack compromised the name, account number, admission date, '
                'length of stay, total charges, unit they were seen in, room '
                'number they were seen in, and insurance carrier name. The '
                'health plan that received the transmission has been '
                'cooperating with the hospital and is expected to provide an '
                'attestation that the errant data was destroyed. Dominican '
                'Hospital took action and provided training sessions to their '
                'staff and took disciplinary action.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['name',
                                 'account number',
                                 'admission date',
                                 'length of stay',
                                 'total charges',
                                 'unit they were seen in',
                                 'room number they were seen in',
                                 'insurance carrier name']},
 'post_incident_analysis': {'corrective_actions': ['Provided training sessions '
                                                   'to staff',
                                                   'Took disciplinary action']},
 'response': {'remediation_measures': ['Provided training sessions to staff',
                                       'Took disciplinary action']},
 'title': 'Dominican Hospital Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}
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