West Coast company blaimed for online data breach at NH hospital
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, June 12, 2007
The personal health information of more than 9,000 Concord Hospital patients was exposed on the Internet for more than a month, the Associated Press reports.
The hospital's president said there's no way of knowing whether any were poached by criminals.
The hospital sent letters last week notifying 9,297 patients and confirmed the breach Saturday to local media. A statement posted Sunday on its Web site said Concord Hospital was working to ensure no future security lapses.
Concord Hospital said Verus, Inc., an online billing contractor based in Bellevue, Wash., disabled an electronic firewall protecting the information on April 12 to perform maintenance, then inadvertently left if off. Verus notified Concord Hospital of the breach on May 30.
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