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Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians: social engineering exposes about 1.4 million patients
COPC discovered on 25 Aug 2026 that a criminal actor using social engineering “aimed at soliciting a financial response” gained access to files with names...
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What happened
- COPC discovered on 25 Aug 2026 that a criminal actor using social engineering “aimed at soliciting a financial response” gained access to files with names, addresses, SSNs, limited health data, financial information and other identifiers of about 1.4 million people (Spectrum News, 15 Oct update). MyChart (Epic) was not affected.
- Root cause: social engineering (Konbriefing describes telephone-based social engineering; COPC’s wording does not specify phone).
- Attacker: not named.
- Response: contained, IDX credit and dark-web monitoring offered.
Sources
- https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/toledo/news/2026/10/15/central-ohio-primary-care-provides-update-on-cybersecurity-incident-that-may-have-leaked-personal-information
- https://konbriefing.com/en-topics/cyber-attacks-usa.html
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