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Children’s Mercy Kansas City

Children’s Mercy Kansas City Data Breach (2017)

Children’s Mercy Kansas City

lowVERIS
Disclosed

March 23, 2017

3291 days ago

Records

5.5K

Confirmed

Root Cause

Insider Threat

Industry

Healthcare

Description

On March 23, 2017, Children’s Mercy Kansas City in Missouri suffered a security incident involving patient information. Children’s Mercy said it discovered an unauthorized website containing information collected by one of the hospital’s physicians. That employee was reportedly using the website to create an educational resource.