Payment information of some 47,000 patients or guarantors maybe have been compromised following a security incident with the third-partys credit card processing system. The data breach was detected on September 29, but theres no evidence the data has been used in illegal activities. As a safety procedure, patients will receive one year of free credit monitoring services. Attacks and credit-card hacks are growing in frequency in healthcare because hackers can use the information for their own advantage or sell it on the dark web.”]

