Η Community Health Systems (CHS) of the US recently revealed that hackers had breached their network and intercepted personal information information from about 4,5 millions patients.
The report states that attackers breached the CHS network between April and July 2014. Mandiant, the company that made the research for hacking found that the team responsible for the Advanced Persistent Threat was from China.
The information that has been intercepted concerns names, telephone numbers, social security numbers and other details of recorded patients.
The service claims that no credit card numbers, medical or clinical information were stolen.
According to TrustedSec, the hackers were able to obtain access into the agency's systems, exploiting its notorious vulnerability OpenSSL "Heart Bleed."
