Community Health Systems, which operates 206 hospitals across the United States, has announced that hackers recently broke into its computers and stole data on 4.5 million patients.
According to CNN, hackers accessed names, Social Security numbers, physical addresses, birthdays and telephone numbers and anyone who received treatment from a physician’s office tied to a network-owned hospital in the last five years — or was merely referred there by an outside doctor — is affected.
The FBI said it’s working closely with the hospital network and “committing significant resources and efforts to target, disrupt, dismantle and arrest the perpetrators.”
