Security News > 2023 > March > Healthcare provider ILS warns 4.2 million people of data breach
Independent Living Systems, a Miami-based healthcare administration and managed care solutions provider, suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 4,226,508 individuals.
The number of impacted individuals makes this the largest data breach in the healthcare sector disclosed this year.
During the subsequent investigation, the firm discovered that the perpetrators had access to ILS systems between June 30 and July 5, 2022, and had access to the data during that time.
"Through its response efforts, ILS learned that an unauthorized actor obtained access to certain ILS systems between June 30 and July 5, 2022," reads the data breach notice.
The first quarter of 2023 has seen quite a few notable data breaches in the healthcare sector, exposing the sensitive medical data of millions of people.
On March 10, 2023, healthcare platform Cerebral sent notices of a data breach to 3.18 million people, informing them of a misconfiguration in trackers used on its platform, which breached the patients' privacy.
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