Email Account Breaches Reported by Newman Regional Health and Contra Costa County
Newman Regional Health (NRH), which runs a 25-bed critical access hospital situated in Emporia, KS, has of late commenced notifying 52,224 people that unauthorized folks have obtained access to a few employee email accounts comprising protected health information (PHI). NRH noted on its web page that unauthorized persons had seen a number of employee email accounts in a period of 10 months in 2021 from January 26, 2021 to November 23, 2021. After identification of the data breach, prompt measures were done to secure the email accounts. NRH began an investigation to determine the magnitude and nature of the breach….