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UChicago Medicine Cuts Ties With Vendor After Potential Exposure of 38,000 Patient Records

This week’s notifications follow a July breach at debt collector Nationwide Recovery Service that may have exposed sensitive personal and medical details.

Construction at a UChicago Medicine building at 57th Street and South Drexel Avenue in Chicago is seen here on June 7, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)
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Overview

  • An unauthorized actor accessed Nationwide Recovery Service’s systems in July, potentially compromising names, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial account data and medical information for about 38,000 UChicago Medicine patients.
  • UCM Medical Group has terminated its contract with Nationwide Recovery Service and implemented additional security measures.
  • The medical group has sent breach notifications to all affected patients.
  • Nationwide Recovery Service reports no evidence so far that the compromised information has been misused.
  • Similar cyberattacks have targeted other regional providers, including Loretto Hospital’s breach earlier this year and last year’s hack of Lurie Children’s Hospital.