UW Medicine is notifying about 90,000 of its patients that their information was accessed during a security breach in October.
The affected patients were treated at Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center, both in Seattle.
The information was released when a UW Medicine employee opened an email attachment that contained malware, which took over the computer.
Officials say the patient information wasn’t the target of the breach, but the malware accessed data for…
UW Medicine is notifying about 90,000 of its patients that their information was accessed during a security breach in October.
The affected patients were treated at Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center, both in Seattle.
The information was released when a UW Medicine employee opened an email attachment that contained malware, which took over the computer.
Officials say the patient information wasn’t the target of the breach, but the malware accessed data for…