Santa Barbara County Public Health Department

Santa Barbara County Public Health Department suffered a data security incident after a Health Care Center employee illegally accessed the personal health information of some 260 patients.

The health care immediately investigated the information that was accessed and offered the impacted ones free credit monitoring

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/santa-barbara-public-health-notifying-patients-after-employee-accessed-records-without-authorization/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/santa-barbara-county-public-health-department

"id": "san055261222",
"linkid": "santa-barbara-county-public-health-department",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "12/2015",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 260,
                        'industry': 'Healthcare',
                        'location': 'Santa Barbara County',
                        'name': 'Santa Barbara County Public Health Department',
                        'type': 'Public Health Department'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Insider Threat',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 260,
                 'type_of_data_compromised': 'Personal Health Information'},
 'description': 'Santa Barbara County Public Health Department suffered a data '
                'security incident after a Health Care Center employee '
                'illegally accessed the personal health information of some '
                '260 patients.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': 'Personal Health Information'},
 'response': {'remediation_measures': ['Free Credit Monitoring']},
 'threat_actor': 'Health Care Center Employee',
 'title': 'Data Security Incident at Santa Barbara County Public Health '
          'Department',
 'type': 'Data Breach',
 'vulnerability_exploited': 'Unauthorized Access'}