Important American care data provider of American health care affected by Datalek – more than 5 million affected patients, this is what we know
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- Episource confirms cyber attack with patient data stolen
- The theft took place at the end of January 2025 and contains policy and medicaid information
- Customers are encouraged to remain vigilant
American Healthcare Data Giant Episource has confirmed that the suffering of a cyber attack in which the sensitive data has lost over more than five million people.
In a data report that was published on the website of the company, it said that the burglary was spotted on 6 February 2025, and after the IT network, the recovering of external forensic experts and the informing of law enforcement, the company heard that the unpleasant ‘copies of some data’.
The data includes health plans/policy, insurance companies, Member/group ID numbers and Medicare-Medicare-Government Payer ID numbers. It also contains health data such as medical records, doctors, diagnoses, medicines, test results, images, care and treatment, as well as other personal data such as birth dates or SOFI numbers (SSN).
Increasing credibility
Cyber criminals often focus on healthcare organizations for their data, because it can be misused in phishing, identity theft and other forms of scams.
Crooks can use the data to make personalized, convincing e -mails that can mislead the victims for download malware Or sharing login details.
At the same time, Episource submitted a new report to the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights’ Breach Portal, which exactly confirmed 5,418,866 people, were affected by this attack.
The company began to inform them on April 23, 2025, it was said. It did not mention which suppliers inform it, but emphasized that not everyone was hit by the attack.
Episource is a health care data and technology company that helps health plans in managing risk adjustment, quality measurement and clinical data via analyzes, coding and technology solutions.
It urges affected people to stay vigilant and pay attention to possible imitation and scamming attempts.
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