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Breach Record

Advocate Aurora Health

DISCLOSED 2024-05-01 · MISCONFIG · 3,000,000 RECORDS EXPOSED

Advocate Aurora Health suffered a data breach affecting 3 million patients due to a Meta Pixel tracker on its website. The exposed data includes health information. The breach was discovered on May 1, 2024.

The record

What we know

Disclosed
2024-05-01
Attack vector
Misconfig
Sector
Healthcare
Records exposed
3,000,000
Data classes exposed
health data
ColdRecon assessment

Could a positive-security control have prevented this?

Verdict · unclear · opinion

The breach involved a website tracker, not an endpoint compromise, so a positive-security endpoint model would not directly apply.

Our assessments are opinion, grounded in the cited public facts. Read them critically.

Sources

Cited reporting

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