WakeMed Health & Hospitals suffered a data breach incident that affected 495,808 of its patients.
The exposed information in the breach included the names, protected health information, and potentially the Social Security numbers of affected parties.
WakeMed sent out data breach letters to all affected parties and informed them to protect themselves from identity theft and other frauds.
Source: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/wakemed-health-hospitals-announces-data-7615058/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/wakemed
"id": "wak07301022",
"linkid": "wakemed",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "10/2022",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 495808,
'industry': 'Healthcare',
'name': 'WakeMed Health & Hospitals',
'type': 'Healthcare Provider'}],
'customer_advisories': 'Informed affected parties to protect themselves from '
'identity theft and other frauds',
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 495808,
'personally_identifiable_information': ['names',
'Social Security '
'numbers'],
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['names',
'protected health information',
'Social Security numbers']},
'description': 'WakeMed Health & Hospitals suffered a data breach incident '
'that affected 495,808 of its patients. The exposed '
'information in the breach included the names, protected '
'health information, and potentially the Social Security '
'numbers of affected parties. WakeMed sent out data breach '
'letters to all affected parties and informed them to protect '
'themselves from identity theft and other frauds.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names',
'protected health information',
'Social Security numbers'],
'identity_theft_risk': 'High'},
'response': {'communication_strategy': 'Sent out data breach letters to all '
'affected parties'},
'title': 'WakeMed Health & Hospitals Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}