Ransomware Attack on New York Billing Company Affects 942K Individuals
Practice Resources, a Syracuse, NY, provider of billing and other professional services, has suffered a data breach involving the records of 942,138 individuals.
According to the breach notification sent to the California Attorney General, Practice Resources was the victim of a ransomware attack on April 12, 2022. Assisted by third-party digital forensics experts, Practice Resources determined that there had been unauthorized access to parts of the network where the protected health information of its clients was stored and the attackers may have infiltrated that information prior to file encryption.
A review of the documents potentially affected by the attack confirmed they contained information such as names, addresses, dates of treatment, health plan numbers, and medical record numbers. Practice Resources has offered affected individuals a complimentary membership to an identity theft protection and credit monitoring service.
Practice Resources said it has issued notification letters to affected individuals on behalf of 28 clients that were affected by the data breach.
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