Umass Memorial Medical Center, Inc. Data Breach (2002)

An employee may have accessed information of certain patients outside of the employees normal job duties. The information may have been used to open commercial accounts, such as credit card and cell phone accounts. Upon receiving this information, UMMMC immediately began an internal investigation. The as determined that the employee had access to patient information such as name, date of birth, Social Security number, and address at some point between May 6, 2002 and March 4, 2014. We are not aware of the misuse of any medical information. The employee no longer works at UMMMC.