Memorial Hermann Health System notified thousands of its customers of the data breach after one of its contracted vendors, Advent Health Partners, suffered a cyber attack.
Unauthorized access and suspicious activities were noticed on an employee's email accounts with data from Memorial Hermann including PHI: first names, last names, dates of birth, social security numbers, financial and medical information.
All the impacted customers were notified and given free credit monitoring services.
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/memorialhermann
"id": "mem12145522",
"linkid": "memorialhermann",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "02/2022",
"severity": "90",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 'thousands',
'industry': 'Healthcare',
'name': 'Memorial Hermann Health System',
'type': 'Healthcare Provider'}],
'attack_vector': 'Email Compromise',
'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['first names',
'last names',
'dates of birth',
'social security '
'numbers'],
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['PHI', 'Financial Information']},
'description': 'Memorial Hermann Health System notified thousands of its '
'customers of the data breach after one of its contracted '
'vendors, Advent Health Partners, suffered a cyber attack. '
'Unauthorized access and suspicious activities were noticed on '
"an employee's email accounts with data from Memorial Hermann "
'including PHI: first names, last names, dates of birth, '
'social security numbers, financial and medical information. '
'All the impacted customers were notified and given free '
'credit monitoring services.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['first names',
'last names',
'dates of birth',
'social security numbers',
'financial information',
'medical information']},
'initial_access_broker': {'entry_point': 'Email Compromise'},
'response': {'communication_strategy': 'Notified all impacted customers and '
'offered free credit monitoring '
'services'},
'title': 'Memorial Hermann Health System Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}