Second hospital reports data breach Coeur dAlene Press

pCOEUR dALENE A second Kootenai County hospital within a weeks time has reported a data breachppKootenai Health on Wednesday reported that at the beginning of March it discovered suspicious activity in its IT networkppOur monitoring tools immediately quarantined the activity and we isolated all impacted systems to limit any potential impact a press release said We also engaged a team of cybersecurity experts to investigate the incident and bring our systems online in a safe and secure manner ppThe release said there was no impact on operations The hospital could not say if patient information was accessedppWe have no evidence that any information has been misused the release said A comprehensive review of the potentially affected data is ongoing and once complete we will reach out to impacted individuals with more informationppOn Friday the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Northwest in Post Falls reported a data security incident that involved patient informationppThe hospital was alerted Feb 1 to unusual activity in its information technology environment In response it promptly secured and isolated its IT systems a press release said ppThe Rehabilitation Hospital of the Northwest also began an investigation with assistance from a thirdparty cybersecurity firm and has been in communication with law enforcement according to the releaseppThrough an ongoing investigation it was determined an unauthorized party gained access to the hospitals IT network between the dates of Jan 16 and Feb 4ppWhile in the hospitals IT network the unauthorized party accessed andor acquired files that contain information pertaining to certain patients including names and one or more of the following addresses dates of birth medical record numbers health insurance plan member IDs claims data diagnosis andor prescription information a press release said ppThe hospital said it was mailing letters to patients whose information may have been involved in the incident Patients whose Social Security andor drivers license numbers may have been involved are being offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services ppThe city of Coeur dAlene recently sent 57 notifications to Idaho residents whose personal information was accessed in a ransomware attack in FebruaryppThe affected data included names Social Security numbers and drivers license andor state identification card numbers according to a March 12 letter to the Office of the Idaho Attorney General from attorney Matt Meade of the firm Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott in PittsburghppAt this time we are not aware of any misuse of your information according to a letter from the city also dated March 12 and sent by Meade to the AGs office ppThe city shut down its computer network Feb 11 after malware was detected in its system The citys website was offline records were not accessible and phones were down for several daysppIn a Feb 12 press release the city said it was working with nationally recognized thirdparty cybersecurity and data forensics consultants and following industry best practices while developing a strategic plan to address the issue ppIn the March 12 letter signed by City Clerk Renata McLeod it states Through our investigation we learned that there was unauthorized access to the Citys network between February 4 and February 11 2024 and that the cyber criminals removed certain files from our servers during the attackppThe city has since brought its network back onlinepptwitterppfacebookppLinkedInppEmailpp

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