NY radiology practice breach affects 97K

A New York radiology practice has informed 97,000 patients that an employee had unauthorized access to their protected health information.

The employee radiologist of NRAD Medical Associates accessed and acquired the information from NRAD’s billing systems; these data included patient names and addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and health insurance, diagnosis codes and procedure codes.

“There is no evidence that the information has been disclosed to or used by any third parties and no evidence that your credit card, banking or other financial information was accessed. We believe there to be low risk to this incident, but any risk is unacceptable,” according to a notice sent to affected patients.

NRAD has “immediately implemented enhanced security measures,” and recommended that patients contact one of the three major credit bureaus to place a fraud alert on credit reports.