The Cooper Cooper health system of Camden, New Jersey, was informed of a data security incident that could have had an impact on data belonging to “certain current and old patients”.
In an opinion published on his websiteThe South New Jersey South Hospital Health System declared that on March 26, 2025, he learned that certain protected and accessible and acquired health information “without authorization by an unknown player around May 14, 2024.
In May 2024, Cooper said that he had read the activity of the abnormal network and quickly took action to secure its systems.
“We have also started cybersecurity experts to help this process and conduct an investigation into what happened and determine if Cooper data was potentially accessible or acquired without authorization,” said Cooper in the opinion.
During the survey, Cooper discovered that certain data stored in its systems were potentially acquired without authorization.
Cooper said that he started examining the data affected to identify the persons and information involved, which ended on March 26, 2025. He then took action to inform the people who were most likely affected.
The potentially affected information included the names of individuals, birth dates, social security numbers, health insurance information, processing information, medical file numbers and medical information.
The company said that not all data elements were assigned to all people.
Cooper said that he had reported the incident to the FBI and has taken measures to improve network security and minimize the risk of a similar incident in the future.
According to the declaration, Cooper said that he was not aware of the abusive use of information from potentially affected individuals.
The opinion describes the stages that individuals can take to protect themselves and their personal information, in particular by advising them to inform their financial institution of any suspicious activity.
Meanwhile, Cooper has created a free call center to answer questions about the incident and to answer related concerns.
Representatives of the call center are available Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. he, excluding vacation, and can be reached at 1-877-623-0094.
The biggest trend
In April, Blue Shield of California informed 4.7 million individuals of a Potential data violation After sharing health information protected by patients with Google in 2021.
Blue Shield used Google Analytics to follow the use by members of certain Blue Shield websites.
The health insurer has said that potentially compromised information includes the names of insurance plans, types and group numbers, as well as personal information such as patient names, sex, location, family size and patient financial responsibility.
Blue Shield said that he had “connected” with Google Ads and Google Analytics in January 2024, a year before it became aware of data collection that lasted years.
In 2023, Monument And Storm shared users without knowing it personal information With third -party advertisers for several years, according to a Data violation notification Deposited with the Attorney General of California.
In the opinion, Monument said that he had used pixel monitoring technologies with companies such as Meta, Google, Bing and Pinterest “without authorization, consent or the appropriate agreements required by law”.
The shared information may include the name, the date of birth, the email address, the telephone number, the address, the identification of the insurance members, the IP address, selected services, evaluation or responses to survey, appointment information, associated health information and other details.
Monument told Mobile that less than 100,000 people have been affected. In the notification, the company said that an internal examination had found data sharing began in January 2020 for members of the monument and in November 2017 for tempest users.
That same year, a company of medical devices Insule published a notice of a data violation This may have compromised protected health information of 29,000 users of its recently recalled insulin insulin management system.
In April, THE HIPAA Journal just reported 58 violations in March – The lowest total for the month of March since 2022 and a reduction of 46% compared to the 98 violations reported in March 2023.
Likewise, the number of people affected by health care data violations is also decreasing, falling for the third consecutive month to just over 1.7 million people, a reduction of 23% compared to February and a reduction of 43.8% since January.
The number of individuals assigned in March was 76.2% lower than the monthly average last year. The exclusion of the violation of change health care – which was an aberrant value in terms of size and impact – an average of almost 7.4 million people were affected by health care violations each month.