From their notice on their web site: McLeod Health ( McLeod ) is committed to protecting the confidentiality and surety of our patients information. Regrettably, we are addressing an email certificate incident that may affect some of that information. McLeod is currently reviewing the contents of an email account that was accessed by an unauthorized doer between April 13, 2020 and April 16, 2020. McLeod became aware of suspicious activity on June 23, 2020 and, following a detailed forensic retrospect of our email environment, confirmed on august 19, 2020 that the contents of the email account were automatically downloaded by the unauthorized doer in April. as part of our response, we secured the account and modified the account settings across our surroundings to aid keep a similar incident. We are also performing a through review of the contents of the email account to identify any patient information that may have been accessible to the unauthorized party. We will update this notice as we prevail more info about the nature and scope of any patient information involved, and we will notify any affected patients as soon as possible thereafter. spell we complete our investigation, we have established a dedicated call centre for McLeod patients to call with questions. please call�1-888-669-5940�Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time, for additional information. We also recommend that patients regularly brushup the statements they receive from their healthcare providers. If they see services they did not receive, we recommend contacting the provider immediately. We take the concealment and confidentiality of our patients info very seriously, and deeply regret any inconvenience or occupy this incident may reason our patients and their families. To help foreclose something like this from happening again, we have modified internal settings that allowed some devices to bypass our multi-factor hallmark process, and we make provided additional education to employees on email security.
