CareCloud begins to notify hundreds of thousands after hackers stole medical records
Hundreds of thousands of people are receiving letters notifying them that their medical records were stolen in a cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant CareCloud earlier this year, as new details about the data breach come to light. The company has said little about the breach since March, when it first admitted that hackers had raided one of its six stores of patient data. New disclosures seen by TechCrunch offer the clearest picture of the breach so far, including that nearly 350,000 people have been affected so far.
- ▪Hundreds of thousands of people are receiving letters notifying them that their medical records were stolen in a cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant CareCloud earlier this year, as new details about the data breach come to light.
- ▪The company has said little about the breach since March, when it first admitted that hackers had raided one of its six stores of patient data.
- ▪New disclosures seen by TechCrunch offer the clearest picture of the breach so far, including that nearly 350,000 people have been affected so far.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are receiving letters notifying them that their medical records were stolen in a cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant CareCloud earlier this year, as new details about the data breach come to light. The company has said little about the breach since March, when it first admitted that hackers had raided one of its six stores of patient data. New disclosures seen by TechCrunch offer the clearest picture of the breach so far, including that nearly 350,000 people have been affected so far. The New Jersey-based CareCloud stores patient records for more than 45,000 providers across the U.S., including doctors’ offices, hospitals, and other medical practices.
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