Advocate Aurora Health, one of Chicago's largest health care providers, has reported a massive data breach.
Advocate Aurora Health, which operates 27 hospitals, said in a statement Thursday that the breach may have exposed information including patients' medical provider, type of appointment or medical procedure, dates and locations of scheduled appointments and IP address.
Advocate Aurora Health says it uses internet tracking technologies from Facebook and Google to help understand how its patients and others interact with its websites. "These pixels would be very unlikely to result in identity theft or any financial harm, and we have no evidence of misuse or incidents of fraud stemming from this incident," the statement said. "Nevertheless, we always encourage patients to regularly review their financial accounts and report any suspicious, unrecognized or inaccurate activity immediately."
Advocate Aurora Health's statement did not specify what triggered its decision to publicize its use of pixels in the MyChart site where patients schedule appointments, communicate with providers' offices and view test results. The statement said the health system has disabled or removed all the pixels and is continuing to investigate internally.
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