Hospital Network Reports Large HIPAA Breach

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Community Health Systems announced yesterdy, August 18th, that hackers broke into its computers and stole data on 4.5 million patients.  The information included names, Social Security numbers, physical addresses, birthdays and telephone numbers.  More information on the breach is available at  http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/18/technology/security/hospital-chs-hack/index.html

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