{"id":779,"date":"2023-06-01T04:31:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentprotect.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2023-06-01T04:58:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:58:27","slug":"breach-report-pharmerica-data-breach-affects-over-5-8-million-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentprotect.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/01\/breach-report-pharmerica-data-breach-affects-over-5-8-million-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Breach Report: PharMerica data breach affects over 5.8 million patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One-sentence summary: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PharMerica was breached by the Money Message ransomware gang in March 2023, resulting in the potential breach of over 5.8 million patients&#8217; sensitive records. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who was involved?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PharMerica Corporation, BrightSpring Health Services, Inc., 5,815,591 patients, and the Money Message ransomware gang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What was the timeline?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 12, 2023; PharMerica breach begins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 14, 2023: PharMerica discovers the breach and the breach ends<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 21, 2023: PharMerica begins the identification of individuals affected by the breach <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 28, 2023: Money Message announces the breach (Toulas, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 9, 2023: Deadline by Money Message ransomware gang for payment (Toulas, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May 12, 2023: PharMerica notifies HHS and begins consumer notification <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What occurred?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Money Message ransomware gang hacked PharMerica in March 2023, allowing the breach of sensitive data of over 5,815,591 patients and at least 4.7 TB of data (HHS, 2023; Toulas, 2023). Breached information potentially included: &#8220;names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medication lists and health insurance information&#8221; (PharMerica, n.d.). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Estimated costs:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incident response costs, breach notification costs, identity services for &#8220;potentially affected individuals,&#8221; M-F call center  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Involved laws: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal: HIPAA and HITECH <br>State: Maine: 10 M.R.S.A. \u00a7 1346<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Root cause: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TBA or N\/A (see disclaimer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lessons learned: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TBA or N\/A (see disclaimer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sources: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HHS. (2023). Cases Currently Under Investigation. In <em>Breach Portal: Notice to the Secretary of HHS Breach of Unsecured Protected Health Information<\/em>. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Office for Civil Rights. Retrieved June 1, 2023, from https:\/\/ocrportal.hhs.gov\/ocr\/breach\/breach_report.jsf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PharMerica. (n.d.). PharMerica Notifies Individuals of Privacy Incident. In <em>PharMerica<\/em>. PharMerica Corporation. Retrieved June 1, 2023, from https:\/\/pharmerica.com\/data-privacy-incident\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PharMerica (searchlogovector). (2018, September). <em>pharmerica-logo-vector.png<\/em>. Searchlogovector. https:\/\/searchlogovector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pharmerica-logo-vector.png<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Toulas, B. (2023, May 15). 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