Security News > 2024 > April > Kaiser Permanente: Data breach may impact 13.4 million patients
Healthcare service provider Kaiser Permanente disclosed a data security incident that may impact 13.4 million people in the United States.
"Kaiser Permanente has determined that certain online technologies, previously installed on its websites and mobile applications, may have transmitted personal information to third-party vendors Google, Microsoft Bing, and X when members and patients accessed its websites or mobile applications" - Kaiser Permanente.
The spokesperson clarified that the data may include IP addresses, names, information that could indicate a member or patient was signed into a Kaiser Permanente account or service, details showing how a member or patient interacted with and navigated through the website and mobile applications, and search terms used in the health encyclopedia.
In June 2022, Kaiser Permanente disclosed a data breach that exposed the health information of 69,000 people caused by unauthorized access to an employee's email account by an external actor.
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