John Leyden’s Article

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John Leyden’s “US Mental Health Provider Admits Email Breach Exposed Patient Data” shows how hospitals are losing critical patient information to cybercriminals. People Incorporated, a Minnesota-based Mental Health Services, admitted that a security breach of its email exposed the data of about 27,500 people (Leyden, 2020). The protected health information contained patients’ data, such as insurance information, dates of birth, driver’s license, medical record number, identification number, physical addresses, financial account information, names, social security numbers, and treatment information (Leyden, 2020). The best thing that People Incorporated did was to report the issue to the government and notifying the affected individuals. For the Mental Health Service to minimize chances of such an incidence reoccurring, it implemented technical safeguards and provided education and training to security experts so that they can know how to identify and deal with malicious emails.
Leyden’s article relates to various topics we covered in the classroom, namely introduction to security...