Data Breach at Luxottica’s Eyemed Vision Affects 820K Patients.
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Luxottica disclosed that their appointment scheduling application suffered a data breach after being hacked on August 5th, 2020. The breach has exposed the personal and protected health information of 829,454 patients at partner eye care practices. Luxottica's Eyemed division partners get access to a web-based appointment scheduling application.
This data breach announcement comes on the heels of a Nefilim ransomware attack on Luxottica. This September 2020 attack caused significant outages, interruptions, and theft of unencrypted files.
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