On November 25, 2020, the California Office of the Attorney General reported a data breach involving Fairchild Medical Center (FMC) due to a misconfiguration on one of its servers. The breach affected personal information from December 16, 2015, to July 31, 2020. The compromised data includes names, dates of birth, patient identification numbers, and exam details. However, Social Security numbers and financial information were not affected.
Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-196532
TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/fairchildmed
"id": "fai358072725",
"linkid": "fairchildmed",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "12/2015",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Healthcare',
'location': 'California',
'name': 'Fairchild Medical Center',
'type': 'Healthcare'}],
'attack_vector': 'Misconfiguration',
'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': True,
'sensitivity_of_data': 'Medium',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['names',
'dates of birth',
'patient identification numbers',
'exam details']},
'date_detected': '2020-11-25',
'date_publicly_disclosed': '2020-11-25',
'description': 'A data breach at Fairchild Medical Center (FMC) due to a '
'misconfiguration on one of its servers, affecting personal '
'information from December 16, 2015, to July 31, 2020.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names',
'dates of birth',
'patient identification numbers',
'exam details']},
'post_incident_analysis': {'root_causes': 'Server Misconfiguration'},
'references': [{'date_accessed': '2020-11-25',
'source': 'California Office of the Attorney General'}],
'title': 'Data Breach at Fairchild Medical Center',
'type': 'Data Breach',
'vulnerability_exploited': 'Server Misconfiguration'}