BankInfoSecurity reports:
A publicly traded home medical equipment and services supplier has told U.S. regulators that hackers recently stole a potentially large volume of patients’ sensitive health and personal information, including data from external electronic health record portals, in a social engineering incident.
Pennsylvania-based AdaptHealth in a July 2 filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said its investigation into the hack is ongoing, but that on June 27 it determined that “the incident is material, due to the nature and potential volume of the data that is at risk.”
AdaptHealth also disclosed that on June 15 the company received a communication from a threat actor who claimed to have “obtained” certain data from the company’s systems.
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