MU Health Care Data Breach

MU Health Care reporting a data breach last fall involving patient information.

In a release yesterday MU Health Care said there is no indication patients’ information has been misused.

It is providing complimentary credit monitoring service to those whose Social Security numbers were compromised, and is implementing additional security mesaures to its email protocol.

On September 21, MU Health Care learned an unauthorized person potentially gained access to the emails of some MU students affiliated with the health system and created a third-party email using the same username and password as their MU accounts.