A recent hack of a Utah medical radiology group’s network server has compromised sensitive health information of more than a half-million patients, ranking the incident among the 20 largest health data breaches posted on the federal tally so far this year.
In a Thursday breach notification statement, Farmington, Utah-based Utah Imaging Associates says that on Sept. 4 it detected a network security incident. Upon discovery, UIA says it promptly secured and began remediating its network.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website, which lists health data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, shows that UIA reported the incident on Nov. 3 as affecting nearly 584,000 individuals.
