Legacy Health, one of many largest hospital and medical suppliers within the Portland space, mentioned a former worker stole sufferers’ private info.

The well being system, which realized of the info breach in July, says sufferers who had exams run at its Legacy Health Laboratory community within the Portland metro and southwest Washington areas had been affected. The worker – who has since been fired — transferred their recordsdata to a private storage system by way of exterior drives and e mail.

The stolen recordsdata contained sufferers’ names, dates of delivery, medical document numbers, supplier names, medical insurance info, analysis and/or remedy info, in addition to social safety numbers for a subset of the recordsdata.

Legacy spokeswoman Vicki Guinn wouldn’t share the variety of sufferers affected saying solely that the leaked information got here from “a small percentage” of laboratory sufferers. She additionally didn’t present the entire variety of sufferers who use the lab providers.

Earlier this week, Legacy started mailing letters to the sufferers whose info was stolen. The hospital system is providing free credit score monitoring and identification safety providers to sufferers whose social safety numbers had been stolen. Patients can name 1-855-681-3527 for extra info.