2010 — Seacoast Radiology: Computer gamers hacked a server at Seacoast…

2010 231.4K records affected

Technical writeup

Computer gamers hacked a server at Seacoast Radiology in Rochester in search of more bandwidth in November to play Call of Duty: Black Ops. In the process they also gained access to personal records of the more than 230,000 patients of the health center.

Root cause

Hacked

References

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110120/GJNEWS_01/701209744
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/breachnotificationrule/breachtool.html