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American College of Cardiology

American College of Cardiology Data Breach (2009)

American College of Cardiology

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Disclosed

January 1, 2009

6294 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Insider Threat

Industry

Other

Description

The American College of Cardiology has notified 1,400 institutions some patient data may have been compromised after the data was inadvertently made available to a third party vendor. During a software redesign of the ACC's national cardiovascular data registry, a table of patient data was copied into the software test environment sometime between 2009 and 2010, and the incident was discovered in December