Premier Healthcare, a Bloomington, Indiana-based healthcare provider, suffered a data breach when a thief stole a laptop containing 205,748 patients information from the company's billing department.
Accessed files contained patients' names, addresses, birth dates, medical record numbers, insurance information and clinical information and SSNs and financial information of 1,769 individuals.
Premier investigated the incident and filed a police report, and begun the process of encrypting all computers so that data can not be missused.
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/premier-healthcare
"id": "pre223218522",
"linkid": "premier-healthcare",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "03/2016",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 205748,
'industry': 'Healthcare',
'location': 'Bloomington, Indiana',
'name': 'Premier Healthcare',
'type': 'Healthcare Provider'}],
'attack_vector': 'Physical Theft',
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 205748,
'personally_identifiable_information': True,
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Names',
'Addresses',
'Birth dates',
'Medical record numbers',
'Insurance information',
'Clinical information',
'SSNs',
'Financial information']},
'description': "A thief stole a laptop containing 205,748 patients' "
"information from Premier Healthcare's billing department.",
'impact': {'data_compromised': ["Patients' names",
'Addresses',
'Birth dates',
'Medical record numbers',
'Insurance information',
'Clinical information',
'SSNs and financial information of 1,769 '
'individuals'],
'systems_affected': ['Laptop']},
'investigation_status': 'Investigated',
'motivation': 'Theft of Information',
'post_incident_analysis': {'corrective_actions': 'Encrypting all computers',
'root_causes': 'Unencrypted Laptop'},
'references': [{'source': 'Cyber Incident Description'}],
'response': {'law_enforcement_notified': True,
'remediation_measures': ['Encrypting all computers']},
'threat_actor': 'Thief',
'title': 'Premier Healthcare Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach',
'vulnerability_exploited': 'Unencrypted Laptop'}