Overview
- The Little Village hospital disclosed on Nov. 19 that an unauthorized party may have accessed several employee email accounts first detected in February.
- Outside cybersecurity experts are assisting a continuing forensic review to determine the scope of access and whose information was involved.
- Potentially exposed data include names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical record and patient account numbers, prescription details, and medical histories.
- The hospital will notify anyone confirmed to be affected and is urging fraud alerts or security freezes, review of free credit reports, and close monitoring of financial accounts.
- A dedicated hotline at 877-580-4384 is available for questions, and the breach meets federal thresholds for reporting to the HHS Office for Civil Rights as part of a broader wave of attacks on health systems.