Phishing hack on Ohio provider breaches data of 42,000 patients for a month

Healthcare IT News: A phishing attack on Ohio-based Aultman Health Foundation potentially breached the data of 42,600 patients of its AultWorks occupational medicine division, hospital and 25 physician practices for more than a month.

After discovering the breach on March 28, officials lead an investigation that found hackers gained access to several email accounts in mid-February, which continued through late March. While the email accounts weren’t on the computers that store EHR data, the breached emails included some patient information.

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