Michigan-based Airway Oxygen, Inc. recently suffered data breach due to ransomware attack. Facility is notifying patients that their PHI may have been affected. Airway Oxygen supplies medical equipment. It mentioned that facility becomes aware of the breach when ransomware was installed in its technical infrastructure. The incident prevented Airway from accessing its own data.
Affected information included full names, home addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers, diagnoses, types of services provided, and health insurance policy numbers. Bank account numbers, debit or credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers were not included in the breach.
As per the OCR tool, 500,000 individuals were affected by the breach.
“Since learning of the incident, we immediately took steps to secure our internal systems against further intrusion, including by scanning the entire internal system, changing passwords for users, vendor accounts and applications, conducting a firewall review, updating and deploying security tools, and installing software to monitor and issue alerts as to suspicious firewall log activity,” explained the statement, which was signed by Airway Oxygen President Stephen Nyhuis.
Facility in the statement mentioned that it has notified FBI. Also, the cyber security firm is hired to help in the investigation.
“We take the security of those with whom we work and their data very seriously and our team is working diligently to ensure breaches of this type do not happen in the future.”
As per the statement, facility mentioned that steps were taken to secure internal systems. Scanning of the technical infrastructure was carried out. Passwords were changed for the users. Vendor accounts are monitored and review is done for security firewall, security tools. New software installation is done to alert for any such incidents in future.
Customers are advised to place a credit fraud alert. Also, a toll-free number is provided to assist the users.
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