{"id":74359,"date":"2020-02-07T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-jdc-healthcare-management-notice-of-data-privacy-incident\/"},"modified":"2020-02-07T22:03:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T02:03:11","slug":"jdc-healthcare-management-aviso-de-incidente-de-privacidad-de-datos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/jdc-healthcare-management-aviso-de-incidente-de-privacidad-de-datos\/","title":{"rendered":"JDC Healthcare Management Notice Of Data Privacy Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">DALLAS<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 7, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <span class=\"xn-chron\">February 7, 2020<\/span>, JDC Healthcare Management (&#8220;JDC&#8221;)\u00a0began notifying patients of a recent incident impacting the privacy of certain information. <\/p>\n<p><b><i>What Happened?<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 On <span class=\"xn-chron\">October 19, 2019<\/span>, JDC became aware of suspicious activity related to a JDC email account.\u00a0 Upon discovery, JDC immediately launched an investigation, with the aid of forensic investigators, to determine the nature and scope of the activity.\u00a0 On <span class=\"xn-chron\">December 10, 2019<\/span>, JDC&#8217;s investigation determined that there was unauthorized access to the JDC email account between <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 21, 2019<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 26, 2019<\/span>, which contained information related to certain patients.\u00a0 Although JDC has no evidence of actual access or misuse of information as a result of this incident, JDC is providing notice to individuals whose information was present in the affected email account.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b><i>What Information Was Involved? \u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b>The following types of information related to certain JDC patients may have been accessible within the affected email account at the time of the incident: name, address, date of birth, medical treatment information and history, health insurance and payment information, patient number, and medical record number.\u00a0 <b><u>No Social Security numbers were affected by this incident.<\/u><\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>What is JDC Doing?\u00a0 <\/i><\/b>JDC takes the confidentiality, privacy, and security of information in our care seriously.\u00a0 Upon discovery, JDC immediately commenced an investigation to confirm the nature and scope of the incident. \u00a0JDC is taking steps to implement additional safeguards and review policies and procedures relating to data privacy and security. \u00a0JDC is also notifying regulators of the incident as required, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and certain state regulators.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><b><i>For More Information.<\/i><\/b><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>JDC established a dedicated call center to answer questions from individuals potentially affected by this incident. The call center can be reached at 1-844-904-0936, Monday to Friday, <span class=\"xn-chron\">8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CST<\/span>.\u00a0 If a potentially affected individual does not receive a letter in the coming weeks, but wishes to confirm whether they are affected, they may contact the dedicated call center. <b>Para personas que hablan solamente Espanol, el numero de <\/b><b>1-<\/b><b>844-904-0936, Lunes a Viernes de <span class=\"xn-chron\">8 a.m.<\/span> a <span class=\"xn-chron\">5:30 p.m. CST<\/span><\/b><b>\u00a0tienen perosnal que habla Espanol<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>JDC also encourages those individuals impacted by this event to remain vigilant against incidents of identity theft and fraud by reviewing accounts, explanations of benefits, and credit reports for suspicious activity and reporting any suspicious activity to the affiliated institutions immediately.\u00a0 Potentially affected individuals are also being offered access to complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services.\u00a0 Additional steps an individual can take to better protect against misuse of their information should they feel it is appropriate to do so include:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Monitoring your financial statements and explanation of benefits carefully.\u00a0 If you see any unauthorized or suspicious activity, promptly contact your healthcare provider, insurance company, financial institution, or credit card company.\u00a0 It is also a good practice to remain vigilant of unsolicited communications seeking your credit card or other financial information.\n<p>Placing a fraud alert on your credit file.\u00a0 You have the right to place an initial or extended &#8220;fraud alert&#8221; on your file at no cost.\u00a0 An initial fraud alert is a 1-year alert that is placed on a consumer&#8217;s credit file.\u00a0 Upon seeing a fraud alert display on a consumer&#8217;s credit file, a business is required to take steps to verify the consumer&#8217;s identity before extending new credit.\u00a0 If you are a victim of identity theft, you are entitled to an extended fraud alert, which is a fraud alert lasting seven years.\u00a0 Contact the three major credit bureaus directly to place a fraud alert on your credit file.<br \/>\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>Placing a security freeze on your credit file.\u00a0 A security freeze will prohibit a consumer reporting agency from releasing information in your credit report without your express authorization.\u00a0 The security freeze is designed to prevent credit, loans, and services from being approved in your name without your consent.\u00a0 However, you should be aware that using a security freeze to take control over who gets access to the personal and financial information in your credit report may delay, interfere with, or prohibit the timely approval of any subsequent request or application you make regarding a new loan, credit, mortgage, or any other account involving the extension of credit.\u00a0 Pursuant to federal law, you cannot be charged to place or lift a security freeze on your credit report.\u00a0 Contact the three major credit bureaus directly to place a security freeze on your credit file.\u00a0 <br \/>\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>Contacting the Federal Trade Commission and your state Attorney General to learn more about identity theft, fraud alerts, security freezes, and other steps you can take to protect yourself.\u00a0 The Federal Trade Commission can be reached at: 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span> 20580; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2714986-1&amp;h=2993546298&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.identitytheft.gov%2F&amp;a=www.identitytheft.gov\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.identitytheft.gov<\/a>; 1-877-ID-THEFT (1-877-438-4338); TTY: 1-866-653-4261.<br \/>\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>Reporting incidents of suspected or actual identity theft or fraud to law enforcement, the Federal Trade Commission, and your state Attorney General.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  JDC Healthcare Management<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">DALLAS<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 7, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <span class=\"xn-chron\">February 7, 2020<\/span>, JDC Healthcare Management (&#8220;JDC&#8221;)\u00a0began notifying patients of a recent incident impacting the privacy of certain information. <\/p>\n<p><b><i>What Happened?<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 On <span class=\"xn-chron\">October 19, 2019<\/span>, JDC became aware of suspicious activity related to a JDC email account.\u00a0 Upon discovery, JDC immediately launched an investigation, with the aid of forensic investigators, to determine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}