Ventura County Health Care Agency

Ventura County Health Care Agency suffered a security breach that exposed 777 patients personal informations.

The data included names, birth dates and medical history.

Two cases involved financial data including Social Security numbers.

They immediately investigated the incident and recovered all files also offered all affected patients complimentary credit monitoring services for a period of 12 months.

Source: https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2016/09/20/county-health-care-agency-reports-breach-patient-data/90750126/

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

"id": "ven14111622",
"linkid": "vchca",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "07/2016",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 777,
                        'industry': 'Healthcare',
                        'location': 'Ventura County',
                        'name': 'Ventura County Health Care Agency',
                        'type': 'Public Health Agency'}],
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 777,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': ['names',
                                                         'birth dates',
                                                         'Social Security '
                                                         'numbers'],
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['names',
                                              'birth dates',
                                              'medical history',
                                              'Social Security numbers']},
 'description': 'Ventura County Health Care Agency suffered a security breach '
                "that exposed 777 patients' personal information, including "
                'names, birth dates, medical history, and in two cases, '
                'financial data including Social Security numbers.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names',
                                 'birth dates',
                                 'medical history',
                                 'Social Security numbers']},
 'response': {'remediation_measures': ['Recovered all files',
                                       'Offered complimentary credit '
                                       'monitoring services for 12 months']},
 'title': 'Ventura County Health Care Agency Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}