2014 — Community Health Systems: Aug 2014: Community Health Systems, which operates…

2014 4.5M records affected

Technical writeup

Aug 2014: Community Health Systems, which operates 206 hospitals across the US, had patient data from the last 5 years breached. Details included names, addresses, social security numbers. Suspected chinese hackers were thought responsible. Goal: identity theft.

Root cause

Hacked

References

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/18/technology/security/hospital-chs-hack/