Military Breach

If you think you may be one of the nearly five mil­lion patients treated at mil­i­tary hos­pi­tals over the past 20 years who was hit by an online secu­rity breach ear­lier this year, there may be help for you. The Depart­ment of defense has got­ten the com­pany slammed by the breach to offer a year of credit mon­i­tor­ing for patients. If you’re con­cerned about your credit his­tory and per­sonal infor­ma­tion being leaked online because of that breach, Sci­ence Appli­ca­tions Inter­na­tional Corp. will do the mon­i­tor­ing for you. S-A-I-C is pro­vid­ing one year of credit mon­i­tor­ing and restora­tion ser­vices. That breach was first reported on Sep­tem­ber 14th of this year. Infor­ma­tion released on the net included patient names, Social Secu­rity num­bers, addresses and phone num­bers, and some per­sonal health data such as clin­i­cal notes, lab­o­ra­tory tests and pre­scrip­tions. If you want more infor­ma­tion, go to:

https://www.tricare.mil

Con­cerned indi­vid­u­als may con­tact the SAIC Inci­dent Response Call Cen­ter, Mon­day through Fri­day, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. East­ern time at 855–366-0140 (toll free) for U.S. callers and 952–556-8312 (col­lect) internationally.