"Associates in Dermatology Responds to Data Breach"

Associates in Dermatology (AID), a healthcare provider with offices in New Albany and Clarksville, is notifying community members of a data breach issue.  Recently the provider announced in a news release that Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions faced a ransomware issue that could potentially affect patients of the dermatology clinic.  The company provides electronic health record management software for the provider.  The data breach occurred around October 31, 2021, leading to a forensic investigation.  The investigation concluded in January of this year.  VPN "identified files pertaining to AID that potentially contained sensitive information."  The company said that on March 10, 2023, AID determined that the compromised files may have also contained personally identifiable information.  AID is working to identify all the specific individuals and the type of data that was impacted by VPN's breach in order to provide sufficient notice.  AID has no reason to believe that any individual's information has been misused as a result of this event.  AID said that compromised data may include patients' names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, medical conditions, treatments, diagnoses, test results, health insurance policy numbers, subscriber identification numbers, and health plan beneficiary numbers.  The data that VPN identified as compromised varied with each individual.

Yahoo News reports: "Associates in Dermatology Responds to Data Breach"