Data breach at Connecticut’s Yale New Haven Health affects over 5 million

A data violation of Connecticut’s largest healthcare system influences Yale New Haven Healthy people more than 5.5 million people, according to Legally required notice With the health department of the US government.

Yale New Haven said that March Cybertack allows patients to get contaminated hackers personally identified information and some data related to healthcare.

On a notice HealthcareThe stolen data may include the patient’s name, birth date, postage and email address, phone number, race and ethnic data and social security number. The stolen data also includes information related to patient types and medical record numbers.

Local media Quoted A spokesman for the health care system says that the number of affected persons “may change” may change. A spokeswoman for New Haven did not immediately comment while contacting TechCrunch.

California’s Blue Shield has confirmed the second big healthcare data violation this week after it was released Sharing health data of 4.7 million patients with Google For several years.