Employee retaliatory agenda leads to theft at Children’s Medical Clinics in Texas. As per the report, an employee took paper patient records from the healthcare facility. The employee also used his credentials to log into electronic patient records, taking screenshots of the records and sending it to another former clinic employee.
Clinic believes that there is no reason to believe the former employee planned to use the patient records to do any harm to the patients, but rather sought to cause damage to its reputation.
Affected information includes patient names, dates of birth, diagnostic information, and treatment information. The notification letter did not indicate that Social Security numbers
Retaliatory agenda leads to data breach
or other billing information were disclosed.
Clinic has not issued credit monitoring services to potentially affected individuals but advised its patients to monitor credit and register for fraud alert. It also provided a free hotline and online portal that potentially affected individuals may use if they have any questions or concerns.
Children’s Medical Clinics expressed regret.
“Children’s Medical Clinics of East Texas prides itself on its dedication to not only high quality medical care for your children, but also with federal and state compliance with the security and privacy of your medical records,” they wrote. “Children’s Medical Clinics of East Texas sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience and concern this incident has caused to you.”
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