Community Health Systems, which operates 206 hospitals across the United States, announced Monday that hackers recently broke into its computers and stole data on 4.5 million patients. Hackers gained access to names, social security numbers, physical addresses, birthdays and phone numbers
Anyone who has received treatment from a network owned hospital in the last five - years. Or was there simply referred by a doctor outside -. assigned
The large data breach puts these people at increased risk of identity fraud. This allows criminals in bank accounts and credit cards in their name, to take loans and ruin personal credit history.
company operates hospitals in 28 states but have their largest presence in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas. Read the article by CNN Money
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