This post was originally published by Juan Lugo.
As cloud adoption continues to increase exponentially across all industries, data breaches have been, by large, the result of hacking and IT incidents. However, there are still a few data breaches each year that arise from loss or theft, and that is exactly what occurred to medical transportation vendor, GridWorks. The Oregon-based ride to care vendor experienced a burglary that resulted in a laptop stolen, which contained the personal identifiable information (PII) of 654,362 members. The database included names, addresses, phone numbers, and Medicaid ID numbers.
Read more here: https://www.bitglass.com/blog/bitglass-security-spotlight-healthcare-burglary-results-in-data-breach-affecting-over-654000-members
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