Major Colorado Healthcare Company Hit With Cyber Attack

Over the past few years, cybercrime has become a major point of concern for many different Coloradans.

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In fact, we were recently rated as the fourth worst state for cyber attacks, with there being a whopping 53,562 being reported between 2018 and 2024. 

The total amount of money lost by these cyber attacks and scams in Colorado is $508,886,418.

With cybercrime likely to only become more prevalent in our society at large, these numbers will almost certainly get worse.

Scammers and cybercriminals have used many different methods to scam people out of their money. Whether it’s through email scams or people straight up doxxing people, we will likely see more come in the future.

With that being said, sometimes cybercriminals will go straight to large companies and corporations to get as much information about their clients as possible.

An example of this recently happened in Colorado that follows a string of similar attacks across the country.

Summit Pathology in Loveland, Colorado Hit With Cyber Attack

Recently, Healthcare IT News reported on a few different major instances of healthcare companies getting hacked across the country.

One of the victims was a hospital in Georgia getting hit with ransomware that took away their electronic health records and delayed patients getting the care they needed.

The other was the health system Kaiser notifying its members in Southern California that two of its employees' emails were in the hands of an unauthorized party.

However, quite possibly the scariest instance came in Northern Colorado, when Summit Pathology in Loveland notified people that they were involved in a major cyber attack.

Hackers were able to get into their systems and get data from over 1,813,538 people. 

This data breach can be considered pretty major, since, according to the lab:

 “The impacted systems contained demographic and healthcare information which include names, addresses, medical billing and insurance information, certain medical information such as diagnoses, and demographic information such as dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and financial information.”

How Did This Happen? 

According to the report, Summit did not have adequate enough data security in place on their computers, which made it extremely easy for hackers to get in.

A law firm from Oklahoma, Murphy Law Firm, will be taking on the case against Summit. It will be filing a class action lawsuit and is looking at claims from the victims.

Summit said that it will be putting in much more strict safeguards immediately, to make sure an attack like this doesn’t happen again.