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Supermarket and pharmacy chain Kroger says PHI of 368,000 individuals was exposed in an Accellion hacking incident.
The list of healthcare organizations affected by recent vendor security incidents - including the recent attack against Accellion - continues to grow.
For example, the supermarket and pharmacy chain Kroger reports that more than 368,000 individuals' protected health information was affected by the Accellion hacking incident, according to the Department of Health and Human Services' HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website, which lists health data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals.
In a recent statement, Kroger says Accellion notified the company that an unauthorized person gained access to certain Kroger files by exploiting a vulnerability in Accellion’s file transfer service.