Glenwood Springs, Colo.-based Valley View Hospital was the goal of a phishing assault when the e-mail accounts of 4 staff had been accessed by unauthorized people, affecting the non-public information of about 21,000 individuals.
On Jan. 19, the hospital discovered that 4 of its worker e-mail accounts had been accessed by an unauthorized person, in response to an April 28 Valley View information launch. The entry was obtained via malicious hyperlinks embedded in emails disguised as respectable correspondence from an worker throughout the firm.
Upon detection, the e-mail accounts had been instantly secured, and a forensic safety agency was engaged to analyze and decide the character and scope of the breach.
On March 29, 2022, it was decided that the compromised e-mail accounts had contained affected person and worker info of 21,000 people.
It’s unknown what varieties of info have been compromised.
Valley View Hospital stated it doesn’t imagine any of the data had been faraway from its system.
The hospital is notifying all affected people.