Houston-based billing and debt collection vendor Benefit Recovery Specialists Inc. Breach affects 275,000 clients and health plans. The company says an unauthorized actor accessed BRSIs systems using employee credentials and deployed malware. The breach was added Monday to the Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website. The incident is the fifth business associate breach among the top 10 added to the tally so far this year (see: Health Data Breach Trends: Mid-Year Assessment)”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/billing-vendor-breach-affects-275000-a-14607