Data breach affects CHI St Alexius patients

pBISMARCK ND KFYR Patients at CHI St Alexius are receiving letters from Welltok Inc a thirdparty vendor about a significant data breach Welltok said it learned at the end of July about a data leak that had taken place during the summerppWelltok said it notified St Alexius about the extent of the leak on November 7ppWelltok said hackers were able to exploit a vulnerability in the file transfer tool it uses The stolen information includes patient names addresses and insurance informationppAccording to the HIPAA Journal nearly 85 million people have been affected by the data breachppYou get worried you get unnerved You worry about that information of yours being transferred to who knows where You dont know the end result Is it going to end today or is it going to go on into the future We dont know where our information is going said William Fleck one of the patients who received a letterppCHI experienced a different data breach about a year ago The HIPAA Journal said nearly 620000 people were affected by itppCHI wrote in a statement on the most recent data breach WellTok Inc is notifying the public of an event that may affect the privacy of certain individuals information Because WellTok is a vendor of CommonSpirit Health we want to ensure that anyone affected by the WellTok event follows processes to get the help and support they need Again this event is being reported by WellTok not CommonSpirit Health Affected individuals will soon receive notification letters from WellTok and those with questions or who need additional support can follow the directions on the letter or call 18006282141ppWelltok said it doesnt have evidence of the stolen information being misused and it will provide one year of credit monitoring for those affectedppCopyright 2023 KFYR All rights reservedp