“Deer Oaks Behavioral Health in Texas is a behavioral health services provider of psychological and psychiatric services to residents of long-term care and assisted living facilities. On October 31, they issued a substitute notice on their website about a ransomware incident they experienced. “
“According to their notice, they discovered the attack on September 1. “The unauthorized activity was immediately detected and isolated, limiting the Incident to one segment of Deer Oaks’ network,” they wrote. “
“A forensics investigation and review of files was completed by September 29, and on October 31, they started sending out notification letters to the 171,871 people affected by the breach. Based on their review of data in the affected servers, the types of information potentially included client names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnosis codes, insurance information, and treatment service types. “
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