{"id":844,"date":"2016-03-04T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fraud.flywheelsites.com\/21st_century_breach\/"},"modified":"2020-11-09T07:31:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T07:31:50","slug":"21st_century_breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/21st_century_breach\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Century Oncology breach &#8211; Fraud.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"21_century_oncology-crop.jpg\" alt=\"21_century_oncology-crop.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Ft. Myers, Florida-based 21st Century Oncology, which operates a chain of 181 cancer treatment centers in the U.S. and Canada, has reported a breach that may have exposed information on up to 2.2 million customers.<\/p>\n<p><!--content_break--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Announced:<\/strong>\u00a0The breach took place in October 2015, but the company was asked not to notify patients by the FBI until now. The FBI had notified the company of a possible breach back in November 2015, 21st Century Oncology executives said. (More from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcareitnews.com\/news\/21st-century-oncology-probes-massive-data-breach-it-settles-fraud-case-347-million\">HealthcareITNews<\/a>.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of breach: <\/strong>According to the company, it was notified on\u00a0November 13 that patient information was illegally obtained by an unauthorized third party who may have gained access to a 21st\u00a0Century database containing information that may have included patients\u2019 names, Social Security numbers, physicians\u2019 names, diagnosis and treatment information, and insurance information. There was no evidence that any medical records were accessed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official information from 21st Century Oncology:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.21co.com\/securityincident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.21co.com\/securityincident<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact 21st Century Oncology:<\/strong>\u00a0Customers may\u00a0call 1-866-446-1405, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Help for victims:<\/strong>\u00a021st Century Oncology is notifying affected victims and offering\u00a0free one-year credit protection services. It also recommends that patients regularly review the explanation of benefits received from their health insurer and contact the insurer immediately about services they did not receive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NULL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}