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38K UChicago Medicine patients affected by debt collector’s data breach, officials say

38K UChicago Medicine patients affected by debt collector’s data breach, officials say

The personal details of approximately 40,000 patients of the University of Chicago Medicine medical group may have been exposed due to a data breach at Nationwide Recovery Services last summer. The data included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial details, and potentially medical information. The uncovered fraud incident was among several cyber attacks in the healthcare field recently, and experts highlight the increasing value of personal information on the dark web.

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