PHOENIX: Banner Health has brought on Levick as part of its response to a massive cyberattack discovered last month.
Hackers accessed 3.7 million records from the hospital’s locations in Arizona, Colorado, Alaska, and Wyoming.
The hospital system identified the hack of its food and beverage outlets on July 7. A week later, it learned patients’ personal, medical, insurance, and beneficiary information was separately accessed, along with some employees’ personal information.
“You get questions regarding why didn’t you announce immediately when you found out,” said Bill Byron, VP of PR for Banner Health. “It takes time to get the [credit and identity monitoring] services of Kroll, to work with the ongoing investigation, and build the communications plan. The position we were trying to avoid is the information getting out, and we’re not there to support yet.” For the full article click here
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