Texas Tech Health Science Center data breach

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9:11a, 12/18/24

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1.4 million patients' data was compromised, including SSNs. This is a bad one.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/texas-tech-university-system-data-breach-impacts-14-million-patients/

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9:17a, 12/18/24

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Becoming an all too common occurrence. The clinic in Dallas I work at got hit 2 years ago along with another hospital group in Tampa. Wrecked our system and sent us back to the stone age for 3 weeks while we had to replace and rebuild all our systems.

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9:22a, 12/18/24

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Everyone in America should assume their SSN has been stolen by now.

Get an Experian/TransUnion free account and freeze your credit. If you get a CC stolen or a random hit that you did not instigate, file a fraud report which will lock your credit for 1-year. Only way to get credit (CC, loan, etc.) is to log in and unlock it for 24 hrs + any CC or Bank has to take extra steps to verify your ID.

Last time I bought a car, I had 3 banks call me to verify my ID, Address, etc. from the application I submitted. I actually asked them a bunch of questions before I would answer any of there question to verify it was not some scam (I didn't think it was since I'd just filled out a loan application that day but it never hurts to verify).

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10:34a, 12/18/24

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I have my credit frozen at all 3 major credit bureaus. I was part of the big Equifax data breach several years back.

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In reply to wangus12 • 2:29p, 12/18/24

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Clinics are so poorly protected, it's insane. So many small clinics don't spend a dime on cybersecurity. And they scoff at the idea when you quote it to them. Apparently, because they haven't been breached yet, it will never happen.

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9:03p, 12/18/24

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https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/

If your information isn't out there already then it will be soon. We have a broken system that will take a generation or two to fix.

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In reply to Rex Racer • 12:10a, 12/20/24

Didn't this same healthcare system get taken down by ransomware a few months ago?

Edit for clarification. This was the same breach. They just announced results of their investigation.

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