Got A Notification From The Hospital About Data Breach

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Apparently the breach happened back in January 2025. I haven't been in the hospital since 2016. During the breach, information from Oracle Health, a health records vendor, was compromised. Patient names, medical records, including test results, diagnoses and doctors' names were obtained, as well as social security numbers.

The letter goes on to say that as soon as Oracle became aware they "initiated a critical response process and took steps to secure the impacted systems". Oracle is also offering two years of free identity protection and credit monitoring services. Have any of you gotten a similar notification (or notifications)?
 
If you are interested in getting it, directly contact them may be best. I can understand an identity service for them. Why would they
be needing to offer credit monitoring too.
 
Yep. The worst one was a contractor at the hospital stealing patient's info and selling it. I wasn't aware until I started getting notices and statements in my husband's name that we did not apply for. We were already dealing with his cancer diagnosis this just added to the stress we were already under.

Mine has also been compromised from a different source.

We had his credit monitored and we locked all of our credit reports down.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Apparently the breach happened back in January 2025. I haven't been in the hospital since 2016. During the breach, information from Oracle Health, a health records vendor, was compromised. Patient names, medical records, including test results, diagnoses and doctors' names were obtained, as well as social security numbers.

The letter goes on to say that as soon as Oracle became aware they "initiated a critical response process and took steps to secure the impacted systems". Oracle is also offering two years of free identity protection and credit monitoring services. Have any of you gotten a similar notification (or notifications)?
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I've gotten a few of those notices, and about a year later, I got a letter asking if I wanted to be included in a class-action lawsuit.

I added my name to two of them and got a check several months later. One check was for around $150.00 and the other was for $1.39 or something. I ignored the 3rd one.
 
Why would a hospital need your Social Insurance Number?

When we’re filling out forms, they often ask for things that probably aren’t needed. It helps them sell your data later.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Apparently the breach happened back in January 2025. I haven't been in the hospital since 2016. During the breach, information from Oracle Health, a health records vendor, was compromised. Patient names, medical records, including test results, diagnoses and doctors' names were obtained, as well as social security numbers.

The letter goes on to say that as soon as Oracle became aware they "initiated a critical response process and took steps to secure the impacted systems". Oracle is also offering two years of free identity protection and credit monitoring services. Have any of you gotten a similar notification (or notifications)?
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If you have not already frozen your credit with Equifax, Transunion and Experian do that right away. You can do it online and it is the best way to protect yourself against identity theft.
 
s76l42 said:
If you have not already frozen your credit with Equifax, Transunion and Experian do that right away. You can do it online and it is the best way to protect yourself against identity theft.
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Thank you for the suggestion S. My credit has been frozen at all three agencies for more than a decade. I've found it's easy enough to unfreeze it for a day or so when applying for a new credit card.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Apparently the breach happened back in January 2025. I haven't been in the hospital since 2016. During the breach, information from Oracle Health, a health records vendor, was compromised. Patient names, medical records, including test results, diagnoses and doctors' names were obtained, as well as social security numbers.

The letter goes on to say that as soon as Oracle became aware they "initiated a critical response process and took steps to secure the impacted systems". Oracle is also offering two years of free identity protection and credit monitoring services. Have any of you gotten a similar notification (or notifications)?
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Yes. The place I get my mammograms had a breach. Same offer of credit monitoring.
That was a year or so ago.
 
I just yesterrday rec'd a notice regarding a data breach, have not
read it all, but see where there is free monitoring for a year, maybe that
is why i'm getting so dam much spam mail for th past month!!!:mad:
 
My daughter works at a credit union.

She said that every week there is a data breech notice.

I haven't seen any consequences of a data breech. So either it's meaningless or they're just selling the info or it's overseas and we don't see what happens.
 
The latest medical-related breach I was notified about came from one of the medical insurance companies, Cigna. There have been dozens in the past from Banks, Credit Bureaus, IBM, D.O.D., retail stores, Ford Motors, etc, etc, etc. Ditto what was said about freezing your credit at the biggest three = Equifax, Experian & Transunion.
 
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