US optometry provider Simon Eye hit by data breach impacting 144,000 patients
September 21, 2021
According to a data breach alert on the Simon Eye website, unauthorised access to employee email accounts over a sevenday period between May 1218, 2021, resulted in the possible compromise of sensitive personal data.
Patients’ identities, medical histories, treatment and diagnosis information, health insurance policy and/or subscriber information, and insurance application and/or claims information may have been exposed, according to a study of the compromised mailboxes’ contents.
