Michigan Medicine says more than 33K patients possibly impacted by data breach

Michigan Medicine said Thursday that compromised employee email accounts may have exposed the health information of about 33,850 patients. “Patient privacy is extremely important to us, and we take this matter very seriously. Michigan Medicine took steps immediately to investigate this matter and is implementing additional safeguards to reduce risk to our patients and help prevent recurrence,” said Jeanne Strickland, Michigan Medicine chief compliance officer, in a press release: https://www.wxyz.com/news/michigan-medicine-says-more-than-33k-patients-possibly-impacted-by-data-breach