IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – University of Iowa Health Care and University of Iowa Community Homecare have sent letters to roughly 211,000 people who are impacted by a data breach.
In a release, UIHC says someone accessed the computer system for UI Community HomeCare on July 3 without permission. Servers were quickly shut down and cybersecurity experts started to investigate, restoring systems within a business day.
But during a comprehensive investigation, they found a cybercriminal took copies of data files with patient information from UI Community HomeCare as well as a group of UI Health Care patients…