Nashville-based HCA Healthcare on Monday alerted its patients that some of their information was “made available by an unknown and unauthorized party on an online forum” in a breach that may have affected 11 million people.
WHY IT MATTERS
According to the for-profit health system, with 180 hospitals and 2,300 ambulatory clinics across 20 U.S. states and the United Kingdom, the data security incident involved data such as patient name, and…