Data breach affects more than 2,000 Texas hospital patients

03/15/24 at 03:15 AM

Data breach affects more than 2,000 Texas hospital patients 
Becker's Health IT, by Madeline Ashley; 3/13/24
Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center has been hit with a data breach that is affecting 2,094 patients. ... The type of patient information breached includes addresses, medical information, health insurance, date of birth, and "other." "The incident involved internal use of unapproved software and did not involve a cyberattack or external exposure of data," a spokesperson for UT Southwestern Medical Center said. ... News of the data breach comes after the hospital was part of a MOVEit software data breach last July that affected millions of people across various industries.

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