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John R. Fischer, Senior Reporter | January 26, 2022
A Texas healthcare provider, Gastroenterology Consultants, was in a similar situation last September when it received backlash for
waiting seven months to notify over 161,000 patients of a ransomware attack it experienced in January 2021. Many were additionally shocked that the company paid the hackers the ransom and trusted them to delete the data in exchange.
While the organization’s patient medical record system was not affected, Gastroenterology did confirm that social security numbers for a small number of patients were compromised, and that the attack primarily affected names, addresses and personal health information.
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In addition to Entira and its patients, the breach at Netgain has affected hundreds of thousands of individuals in total and impacted Allina Health’s Apple Valley Clinic, San Ysidro Health, SAC Health Systems, San Diego Family Care, and Elara Caring, among others, reported Health IT Security.
Entira did not respond to calls for comment.
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