Federman & Sherwood Investigates Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Texas Tech Health El Paso for Data Breach
Oklahoma City, OK (December 16, 2024) – Federman & Sherwood investigates Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Texas Tech Health El Paso (collectively, “Texas Tech Health Sciences Centers,” or “the HSCs”) for data breach. Recently, Texas Tech Health Sciences Centers posted a website notice explaining that the organizations experienced a cybersecurity event. In this notice, Texas Tech Health Sciences Centers explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to access consumers’ sensitive information. Texas Tech Health Sciences Centers immediately launched an investigation into the incident. Through this investigation, the HSCs confirmed that an unauthorized party accessed and may have acquired confidential information from the organization’s IT network between September 17, 2024 and September 29, 2024. Upon completing its investigation, Texas Tech Health Sciences Centers began to send out data breach notification letters to all consumers impacted by the data breach.
The type of information potentially exposed includes:
• Full Name
• Date of Birth
• Address
• Social Security Number
• Driver’s License Number
• Financial Account Information
• Health Insurance/ Medical Information
• Other sensitive information
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is an educational institution and healthcare provider based out of Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center operates six schools and five satellite campuses across West Texas, including: TTUHSC School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Health Professionals, Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and Julia Jones Matthews School of Population and Public Health.
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Tashia Poore
FEDERMAN & SHERWOOD
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