Miami Hospital Suffers Second Breach within a Year

The University of Miami Hospital suffered another patient breach this year where two of its employees are suspected of stealing patient data from the hospital.  The information stolen during the breach includes names, last four of socials, date of birth, addresses, insurance policy numbers, and medical history of each patient.  At this point they don’t know how many patients were affected by the breach. The hospital is also offering two free years of credit monitoring for all those who may have been affected.   This Miami hospital may want to consider employee screening before hiring and revamp their security policy.  Most of the times when we think about breaches you assume that someone from the outside has hacked into a system and caused harm.  We never think about a breach taken place from inside the company by employees who are authorized to view and handle your information.  It’s kind of scary when you think of all the places that have your information and all the different people that have access to it.  This article can be found at:  http://www.scmagazine.com/miami-hospital-hit-by-second-patient-breach-this-year/article/258895/