Healthcare system Ascension has notified 437,329 patients of a data breach exposing “demographic information, such as name, address, phone number(s), email address, date of birth, race, gender, and Social Security numbers, as well as clinical information related to an inpatient visit.”
Ascension indicated that the incident occurred when it “inadvertently disclosed information to a former business partner, and some of this information was likely stolen from them due to a vulnerability in third-party software used by the former business partner.”
Ascension is offering affected individuals two years of free identity monitoring, including credit monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration.