Practice management software provider MedEvolve confirmed that an FTP server containing an unsecured file with data on patients was made accessible and may have impacted more than 200,000 current and former patients of Premier Immediate Medical Care. In a notice, MedEvolve said the data was accessible on the internet from March 29 to May 4 and that an unauthorized third party accessed the file March 29. Meanwhile, Virginia-based VCU Health System said an employee “inappropriately accessed” the health information of approximately 4,700 people or their children, and Arkansas Children’s Hospital said a former employee is being investigated for misuse of information on 4,500 patients.
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