By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
Patients with the St. Joseph Health Department are being notified their personal information might have been compromised due to the June 9th data breach.
The City of St. Joseph says these notices are intended to alert potentially impacted individuals of the incident and the steps the city is taking in wake of the breach. The city experienced a network disruption on June 9th. An investigation determined that certain files might have been acquired during the breach.
St. Joseph engaged a data mining vendor to review the incident and after an extensive review concluded on September 4th a hacker might have acquired some individual health information from the St. Joseph Health Department.
The city is providing written notice to individuals whose personal health information was compromised.
St. Joseph city officials report the following information could have been acquired and disclosed by an unauthorized third party: first name, last name, date of birth, driver's license number or state identification number, passport number, Social Security number, and medical diagnosis of treatment information.
The city says it is committed to helping those people who may have been impacted by the data breach.
Individuals seeking more information or questions about this incident, should call 1-833-844-5829, from 7am to 7pm, Monday through Friday.
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