Chicago's Rush Medical Center reports data breach involving 45,000 patients
by Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune
Mar 05, 2019
3 minutes
CHICAGO - The personal information of about 45,000 Rush patients may have been compromised in a data breach, the health system revealed in a recent financial filing.
The exposed data may include names, addresses, birthdays, Social Security numbers and health insurance information, according to the filing. The data did not include medical information. Rush said that to its knowledge, none of the information had been misused.
The breach is just the latest in what has been a continuing pattern of data security problems at hospitals across the nation. At Rush, an employee
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