Minnesota Suffers Second-Largest Data Breach

Anish Dasgupta

September 20, 2020

Allina Health hospitals and clinics, Children’s Minnesota, Regions Hospital and Gillette Children’s, all based in Minnesota, sent letters to families who may have been impacted by a data breach in which personal data may have been exposed. The breach happened at Blackbaud, a third-party vendor that provides data service for all of the above institutions. According to a statement by Children’s Minnesota, patient information such as full names, addresses, phone numbers, age, dates of birth, gender, medical record number, dates of treatment and a few other fields may have been exposed. However financial information, credit card information and social security numbers were not stored in the impacted database. Allina even tried to reassure its customers by releasing a statement which said Blackbaud had complied with the cybercriminal’s demands and that the copy of that data removed had been destroyed.

Abridged fromInfosecurity