Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System

The employee email accounts of Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System were hacked in a cyber security attack that exposed protected health information.

The data of 786 individuals including patient names, medical record numbers, and hospital account numbers were compromised in the attack.

Source: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/california-health-system-reports-4-employee-emails-hacked-since-april.html

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/salinas-valley-memorial-healthcare-system

"id": "sal17418222",
"linkid": "salinas-valley-memorial-healthcare-system",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "07/2020",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 786,
                        'industry': 'Healthcare',
                        'name': 'Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System',
                        'type': 'Healthcare'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Email Account Hacking',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 786,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': True,
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Patient names',
                                              'Medical record numbers',
                                              'Hospital account numbers']},
 'description': 'The employee email accounts of Salinas Valley Memorial '
                'Healthcare System were hacked in a cyber security attack that '
                'exposed protected health information.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Patient names',
                                 'Medical record numbers',
                                 'Hospital account numbers'],
            'systems_affected': 'Employee email accounts'},
 'title': 'Email Account Hacking Incident at Salinas Valley Memorial '
          'Healthcare System',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}