Geisinger alerts patients to data incident involving terminated Nuance employee

Geisinger is notifying its patients that some of their personal information may have been accessed in a data breach allegedly perpetrated by a former employee of Nuance Communications, which provides IT services for the health system.

WHY IT MATTERS

The Danville, Pennsylvania-based nonprofit, which serves 1.2 million people at more than 130 sites across the state, announced Monday that it discovered a former third-party employee had accessed patient information on November 29, 2023 – two days after that employee had …

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