Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center has been hit with a data breach that is affecting 2,094 patients, according to a data security breach report on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's website.
The report, which was published March 7, revealed that the type of patient information breached includes addresses, medical information, health insurance, date of birth, and "other."
"The incident involved internal use of unapproved software and did not involve a cyberattack or external exposure of data," a spokesperson for UT Southwestern Medical Center said in a statement shared with Becker's. "UT Southwestern provided initial notification to the OAG in compliance with state regulations."
News of the data breach comes after the hospital was part of a MOVEit software data breach last July that affected millions of people across various industries.
"We consider the protection of our patients’ privacy of utmost importance and regret the occurrence of this incident," the spokesperson said. "We are assessing the data to prepare notifications to those impacted in accordance with federal regulations."