The “data security incident” was discovered on March 14, prompting Parker to deploy its incident response protocols, including shutting down certain systems and contacting law enforcement. Parker-Hannifin is a manufacturing company focused on aerospace hydraulic equipment. The hack of Parker-Hannifin Corporation Group Health Plans’ IT systems in March, led to the exfiltration of health information tied to 119,513 patients.
This includes reviewing and updating access controls, permissions, and data storage security procedures.” Parker-Hannifin systems’ hack leads to data theft for 119K patients ECL “has implemented technical, administrative, and physical safeguards to protect against future attacks. Notably, Regional Eye is continuing to use ECL for its services and working with the vendor on their forensic investigation. As such, Regional Eye is urging patients to place fraud alerts on their credit reports to defend against identity theft. So far there’s no evidence that any health information was stolen before it was deleted. before being discovered and locked out of the system.”
4 and “deleted several databases between the hours of 7:18 pm and 10:13 p.m. The Regional Eye notice sheds further light on the incident: an attack gained access to ECL’s system on Dec. Like the EvergreenHealth and Summit Eye Associates releases, the notice was provided one month after the 60-day timeline required by The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. ECL has been embroiled in a provider-based lawsuit after a year of alleged outages tied to multiple ransomware attacks and claims of an insider-incident, in addition to the December incident.įor Regional Eye, ECL informed the provider of the incident and potential impacts on March 1. A breach notice from West Virginia-based Regional Eye Associates informs 194,035 patients that their data was accessed and deleted from their third-party vendor’s system in December 2021, ahead of a ransomware attack.Īlthough Eye Care Leaders is not named directly, the notice mirrors several other provider notices tied to a ransomware attack on the cloud-based electronic medical record vendor.
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