Data breach exposes patient information of closed E.P. sports medicine practice

MIKE KELLY, ­cybersecurity program director for the Community College of Rhode Island, performs a threat check. Personal patient data of Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics at 400 Massasoit Ave. in East Providence was exposed during a ransomware attack in October./ PBN FILE PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

EAST PROVIDENCE – Personal patient data of a closed sports medicine practice was exposed during a ransomware attack in October.  In a statement on its website on Nov. 28, Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics at 400 Massasoit Ave. discovered on Oct. 10 its electronic medical record system had been encrypted by ransomware.  The practice, which has been closed for 11 months, said information

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