"We are working with outside cybersecurity experts to learn from the incident and help our system – and other health systems – prevent the kinds of cybercrimes that affect healthcare and other sectors every day." "UnityPoint Health is fully committed to protecting patient information and privacy and devotes substantial resources to this commitment," Thoensen said. Other patient information that have been viewed includes patient names and dates of birth. Social Security numbers and financial information could also have been viewed "for a limited number of impacted individuals," according to the letter.Īs of Friday, UnityPoint Health is not aware that the electronic medical record system was affected, and there are no reports of identity fraud or identity theft related to the incident, said Teresa Thoensen, senior marketing communications specialist, in an email to the Register.
The letter details that affected employee email accounts contained health information, including medical record numbers surgical, treatment, diagnosis and medication information lab results dates of service and insurance information. Though UnityPoint worked to secure accounts, an investigation showed that the impacted email accounts contained patient information, the company says. The accounts may have been accessed between Nov. 15, UnityPoint Health discovered a phishing attack that had affected some employee email accounts, according to a letter sent to patients April 16. Watch Video: How do you avoid getting scammed on the job?Ībout 16,000 UnityPoint Health patients could have had their health and personal information compromised after the health care provider was affected by a phishing attack, a spokeswoman says.
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