Eye Care Leaders Hack Impacts Millions of Patients

Posted By Steve Alder on May 24, 2022

Unauthorized individuals have gained access to the systems of Eye Care Leaders, a provider of electronic health records and patient management software solutions for eye care practices. On or around December 4, 2021, hackers gained access to its myCare Identity solution and deleted databases, systems configuration files, and data.

Eye Care Leaders said its incident response team immediately stopped the unauthorized activity when the breach was detected and launched an investigation into the security breach. The investigation is ongoing, but notifications have now been sent to affected ophthalmology and optometry practices.

While the investigation has not uncovered evidence to suggest the attackers viewed or exfiltrated sensitive data, the possibility of unauthorized data access and theft could not be ruled out. The types of information that have been exposed included patient names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, health insurance information, Social Security numbers, and information regarding the care received at the affected eye care practices. The breach was confined to the myCare Identity solution. The systems of eye care providers that use the solution were not compromised. It is currently unclear how many individuals have been affected by the breach. The Eye Care Leaders website states that it provides software solutions to more than 9,000 ophthalmologists and optometrists.

The number of eye care providers affected by the breach has been growing over the past few weeks, and it is now known that the HIPAA protected health information of more than 3.6 million patients has been exposed and potentially compromised. 41 Eye care providers are known to have been affected by the security incident and are listed in the table below. The table was last updated on November 3, 2022.

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Eye Care Providers Affected by Eye Care Leaders’ Data Breach