OCR investigating Banner Health for 2016 breach of 3.7 million patient records

Healthcare IT News: The U.S Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights is investigating Banner Health over its 2016 breach that exposed the data of 3.7 million patients at 27 locations, according to year-end financials.

In June 2016, hackers got into Banner’s payment processing system at its food and beverage outlets, which they used as a gateway into the network and eventually the servers containing patient data.

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