NYU Langone Health

NYU Langone Health suffered from a data breach incident that exposed 2000 Patient Information.

The compromised information includes name, date of birth, date of service, diagnosis code, current procedural terminology code, insurer name and identification number, and potentially other short related comments, such as any insurance approval or denial information and inpatient or outpatient status.

They took steps to ensure that a similar incident would not occur.

Staff was re-educated on the importance of safeguarding patient information and the practice updated its workflow to protect such information further.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/nyu-langone-health-notifies-patients-of-improperly-disposed-binder-containing-patient-information/

"id": "NYU7191323",
"linkid": "nyulangonehealth",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "12/2017",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"