Houston Methodist

Houston Methodist Cancer Center suffered a data breach that compromised the 1,417 cancer patients’ email addresses.

Patients at Houston Methodist Cancer Center were informed that all receivers' addresses were displayed, possibly disclosing their identities and affiliation with the medical center to the general public.

Methodist's investigated the incident and tried to recall the emails and develop additional technical safeguards to prevent this situation from happening again and retrained appropriate staff."

Source: https://www.chron.com/news/medical/article/Email-breach-hits-Houston-s-Methodist-Hospital-11010140.php

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/houston-methodist

"id": "hou115424722",
"linkid": "houston-methodist",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "03/2017",
"severity": "50",
"impact": "",
"explanation": "Attack limited on finance or reputation - loss of bank statements, self-assessment details, and other people's National Insurance numbers"

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                        'industry': 'Healthcare',
                        'location': 'Houston, Texas',
                        'name': 'Houston Methodist Cancer Center',
                        'type': 'Medical Center'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Email',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 1417,
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'Medium',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': 'Email addresses'},
 'description': 'Houston Methodist Cancer Center suffered a data breach that '
                'compromised the email addresses of 1,417 cancer patients. '
                "Patients were informed that all receivers' addresses were "
                'displayed, potentially disclosing their identities and '
                'affiliation with the medical center to the general public.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Email addresses']},
 'response': {'communication_strategy': ['Informing patients'],
              'containment_measures': ['Email recall'],
              'remediation_measures': ['Additional technical safeguards',
                                       'Staff retraining']},
 'title': 'Houston Methodist Cancer Center Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}