ST. JOSEPH’S ADMITS SECURITY BREACH

  

Officials with St. Joseph Health System say the personal data of more than 400,000 former and current patients, as well as some employees, was compromised during a cyber security attack in December.

St. Joseph Healthcare officials tell KBTX-TV in Bryan, a server was hacked by IP addresses from China back on December 16th.

The personal information of some 405,000 past, and present patients as well as employees may have been compromised.

A small percentage of some employees’ bank information was also breached.

VP of Community Relations, Tim Ottinger says that in most cases it's name, date of birth, and social security number, for some of them a little bit of medical information not their whole medical record was at risk.

Ottinger says they shut the server down within 48 hours and called in a forensics team to investigate.

The FBI also opened a case.

The breach affects people in the system over the past ten years not only in Bryan, but also Madison, Grimes, Burleson Counties and the St. Joseph Rehabilitation Center.