3rd Party Risk Management , Breach Notification , Cybercrime
Northwell Health Among Perry Johnson & Associates' Healthcare Clients Affected Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • November 15, 2023 A data theft incident at medical transcription firm PJ&A has affected at least 9 million patients. (Image: Perry Johnson & Associates)The number of healthcare organizations and patients affected by a recent data theft at medical transcription firm Perry Johnson & Associates is expanding: The company now says the breach affected the sensitive information of about 9 million people.
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Nevada-based Perry Johnson & Associates, which does business as PJ&A, in a breach report filed on Nov. 3 to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights said the hacking incident has affected more than 8.95 million people.
In the meantime, Northwell Health - the largest healthcare system in New York State, with 21 hospitals and 900 outpatient facilities - has disclosed that it was one of the PJ&A clients affected by the hack.
A Northwell Health spokesman on Wednesday told Information Security Media Group that the PJ&A hack affected nearly 3.9 million Northwell Health patients.
"While none of Northwell’s systems were impacted by this cyberattack on PJ&A, Northwell has been informed by PJ&A that records relating to Northwell's patients were among the files copied from PJ&A's networ ..
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