Today: Breaking Down the CommonSpirit Data Breach

ChatGPTs Summary: In this episode of Health IT, Bill Russell discusses the Common Spirit data breach that affected more than 600,000 patients across 100+ facilities in at least 13 states. The nationwide Catholic healthcare chain detected the ransomware attack in October and suffered a loss of $150 million, which includes revenue loss and the cost of remedying the issue. Information leaked during the breach includes names, addresses, birthdays, contact information, medical information, billing information, and social security numbers. Common Spirit has no evidence of misuse of the leaked personal information. Russell suggests using this article as an educational tool for boards, identifying and mitigating key areas of risk, updating architecture and tools to adapt to system expansions, and exploring tools like CrowdStrike and PHI Locator to enhance security.