Benefis patients notified of data breach involving third-party vendor

Benefis patients notified of data breach involving third-party vendor

Many residents in central Montana received letters this week notifying them that their personal information may have been compromised in a data breach involving Wakefield and Associates, a third-party billing and revenue cycle firm previously used by Benefis Health System.In the notice, Wakefield explains that it discovered suspicious activity on its network earlier this year and later confirmed unauthorized access to certain files. The files we…