Summit Pathology reports massive hacking incident affecting 1.8 million patients
Summit Pathology and Summit Pathology Laboratories, Inc., a healthcare provider in Colorado, filed a breach report with HHS OCR on October 18, 2024. The filing covers a hacking/IT incident involving a network server that exposed the protected health information of 1,813,538 individuals. This submission date is when the report was filed with the government, not necessarily when the breach occurred. As a covered entity, Summit Pathology is responsible for notifying affected individuals and the Department of Health and Human Services. Healthcare administrators should monitor for notification letters if their patients or staff received pathology services from this organization, as the scale of this incident suggests widespread exposure of sensitive medical data.