{"id":835790,"date":"2025-03-21T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/us-healthcare-provider-data-breach-impacts-1-million-patients\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:12:01","slug":"us-healthcare-provider-data-breach-impacts-1-million-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/us-healthcare-provider-data-breach-impacts-1-million-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"US healthcare provider data breach impacts 1 million patients"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Community Health Center (CHC), a leading Connecticut healthcare provider, is notifying over 1 million patients of a data breach that impacted their personal and health data.<\/p>\n

The non-profit organization provides primary medical, dental, and mental health services to more than 145,000 active patients.<\/p>\n

CHC said in a Thursday filing with Maine’s attorney general<\/a> that unknown attackers gained access to its network in mid-October 2024, a breach discovered more than two months later, on January 2, 2025.<\/p>\n

While the threat actors stole files containing patients’ personal and health information belonging to 1,060,936 individuals, the healthcare organization says they didn’t encrypt any compromised systems and that the security breach didn’t impact its operations.<\/p>\n

Investigators hired to assess the incident’s impact and secure CHC’s systems found that “a skilled criminal hacker” was behind the attack.<\/p>\n

“Fortunately, the criminal hacker did not delete or lock any of our data, and the criminal’s activity did not affect our daily operations. We believe we stopped the criminal hacker’s access within hours, and that there is no current threat to our systems,” CHC added.<\/p>\n

Depending on the affected individuals, including<\/a> “current and former patients and all individuals who received a COVID test or vaccine at a CHC clinic,” the attackers stole a combination of:<\/p>\n