Surgical Hospital of San Antonio in Texas accidentally exposed the health information of patients over the internet.
It compromised the protected health information of 1,237 patients.
On January 29, 2020, the hospital posted a link on its website to a file that was supposed to show average hospital charges.
The file linked via the website contained patients’ names, diagnosis codes, patient account numbers, procedure dates, charges and amount paid, and whether the charges had been paid, were due, or had been written off.
"id": "SAN201918123",
"linkid": "san-antonio-regional-hospital",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "01/2020",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"
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