Brandywine Counseling and Community Services, Inc. disclosed a breach. annotation that this is not the Brandywine Urology transgress recently disclosed but a different entity and a different breach. DataBreaches.net has reached out to Brandywine Counseling to inquire for clarification on certain details, but has not received any answer by publication time. This incident is not yet up on HHS’s public transgress tool, so we also do not yet know how many patients have been notified. This post will be updated when more details are obtained, but for now, here is their notice: Brandywine counseling and Community Services, Inc. is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of our clients information. Regrettably, this notice concerns a surety incident that may have involved some of that information. On February 10, 2020, we discovered that some of our servers were infected with ransomware. We immediately took steps to secure our network, contacted law enforcement, began an investigation, and an experienced computer forensic firm was hired to assist. During the investigation, we determined that during the incident, a limited amount of personal info was acquired from our systems, which included some clients names, addresses, dates of birth, and/or limited clinical information, such as provider name(s), diagnosis, prescription(s), and/or treatment information. In some instances, clients health insurance information, social surety numbers and/or drivers license numbers were also included. This incident did not affect all clients, but only those clients whose information was included in the limited information acquired during the ransomware incident. As a precaution, we are mailing letters to clients whose information was acquired during the ransomware incident. We also get established a dedicated, toll-free call centre to resolve clients questions. If you get questions, please phone 1-888-921-0536, monday through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. eastern time. For those clients whose social Security numbers and/or drivers permit numbers were involved, we are offering complimentary credit monitoring and identicalness tribute services. We also urge that affected clients brushup any statements they receive from their health insurers or healthcare providers. If clients see charges for services not received, they should impinging the insurer or provider immediately. We regret any headache or inconvenience this incident may cause. We stay committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of our clients information. To help prevent something like this from happening in the future, we continue to retrospect our systems and implement additional measures to heighten and strengthen our certificate processes.
