SSNs and more on 5.5M+ patients feared stolen from Yale Health

Yale New Haven Health has notified more than 5.5 million people that their private details were likely stolen by miscreants who broke into the healthcare system's network last month. The organization is affiliated with Yale University and Yale School of Medicine. It is Connecticut's largest provider of its kind, with five …

[Doctor Syntax]

You'd have thought Yale would have been properly locked down.

[Anonymous Coward]

Used to work at ynhh...

Used to work here. Artie used to be smug about the great security at ynhh. Any news on a class action lawsuit?

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: Used to work at ynhh...

The fact it took them over a month from discovery to notification ought to be enough to launch a case.

[An_Old_Dog]

Internet and Phone (Dis-) Connectivity at Yale

... our teams are working hard to manage the impact of phone and internet connection issues on patient care."

It sounds as if Yale went all-in on Cisco for network switching stystems and IP telephony, as my org did.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll add this to the collection of free monitoring services that I have received over the past few years.

It's really a joke at this point - I've never received even a welcome email or letter from any of the companies that supposedly have been engaged to protect me after corporate negligence. And even if I did I wouldn't trust them to do anything of value.

In the future (when/if the US has a functioning government again) there need to be substantial ($1000 per record) fines and jail time for cost-cutting execs who enabled this.