14 DAY TRIAL // Clients of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) Center for Language, Speech and Hearing are being notified after a malicious program was identified on a workstation. The malware might have compromised protected health information.
According to the university, the infection was detected on April 5, 2013. While there’s no evidence that the malware copied any data, the malicious application could have gained access to the details of 1,670 patients.
The patient records include social security numbers, addresses, names, dates of birth, health insurance company names, insurance numbers, diagnoses, procedure codes, and information on primary health care or referring physicians.
UMass Amherst says that it has installed additional security software and staffers are being trained in security practices.
Impacted individuals are advised to pay particular attention to any unusual activity regarding their health insurance information to make sure it’s not misused.