2.2 Million Affected by University of Utah Hospitals Breach

Who Breached: University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics
Number Affected: 2.2 million
Information breached: Social Security Numbers & billing records
How: backup tapes stolen from vehicle

2.2 million patients have been affected by a breach at the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics.

A courier delivering billing records on backup tapes to a storage center, failed to immediately drop off the records. Instead, he went to work a second job and then went home. The records were stolen from the vehicle, a Ford Explorer, some time that night on June 1st. The driver, who worked for Perpetual Storage for the past 18 years, has been fired.

The billing records included Social Security Numbers for 1.3 million people treated in the University in the past 16 years.

It will take over $500,000, just in stamps and envelopes, for the University to notify affected people. The hospital is offering free credit monitoring to the 2.2 million affected. The University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics is also offering a $1000 reward for any information related to the theft.

There was also another major breach this week by Stanford University – 72,000 employees were affected after a laptop was stolen. You can read more here.

Via attrition, kutv ; image: deanjenkins @morguefile ; Tags: data breach, university of utah, breach, security breach, information security, it security, data security, courier, hospital, perpetual storage