RC Health Services

RC Health Services

R-C Healthcare was affected by a third-party breach in October 2016.

Data leaked by an error made in resetting network settings that exposed 655,000 of its patients’ records.

They notified their patients about the incident and started investigating the incident.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/northwest-community-notifies-patients-of-r-c-healthcare-breach/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/rchealthservices

"id": "rch15297622",
"linkid": "rchealthservices",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "10/2016",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 655000,
                        'industry': 'Healthcare',
                        'name': 'R-C Healthcare',
                        'type': 'Healthcare Provider'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Misconfiguration',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 655000,
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Patient Records']},
 'date_detected': 'October 2016',
 'description': 'R-C Healthcare was affected by a third-party breach in '
                'October 2016. Data leaked by an error made in resetting '
                'network settings that exposed 655,000 of its patients’ '
                'records. They notified their patients about the incident and '
                'started investigating the incident.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Patient Records']},
 'investigation_status': 'Started investigating the incident',
 'references': [{'source': 'Incident Description'}],
 'response': {'communication_strategy': ['Notified Patients']},
 'title': 'R-C Healthcare Third-Party Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach',
 'vulnerability_exploited': 'Error in resetting network settings'}
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