Massive Data Breach at HCA Healthcare: 11 Million Patients’ Information Compromised by Hackers

Hospital and clinic operator HCA Healthcare has announced that it experienced a significant cyberattack, posing a risk to the data of at least 11 million patients. 

The breach affects patients in 20 states, including California, Florida, Georgia, and Texas. HCA Healthcare, headquartered in Nashville, disclosed that the compromised data includes potentially sensitive information such as patients’ names, partial addresses, contact details, and upcoming appointment dates.

This breach, discovered by the company on July 5, is considered one of the largest healthcare breaches in history. HCA Healthcare revealed that the hackers accessed various types of information, including patient names, cities, states, zip codes, emails, telephone numbers, dates of birth, genders, service dates, locations, and next appointment dates.

“This appears to be a theft from an external storage location exclusively used to automate the formatting of email messages,” the company said in its Monday announcement.

“The company disabled user access to the storage location as an immediate containment measure and plans to contact any impacted patients to provide additional information and support, in accordance with its legal and regulatory obligations, and will offer credit monitoring and identity protection services, where appropria

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