Personal info of nearly 60K patients may have been exposed in health system cyberattack

Personal info of nearly 60K patients may have been exposed in health system cyberattack

A cyber attack on Cooper University Health Care last year may have exposed nearly 60,000 patients’ names, addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth, medical information, and health insurance information, the company said in a statement.

Cooper Health System reports data security breach

Camden, New Jersey-based Cooper Health System was informed of a data security incident that could have impacted data belonging to "certain current and former patients." In a notice posted on its website, the three-hospital Southern New Jersey health system said that on March 26, 2025, it learned that certain personal, protected health information was "accessed  and acquired" without permission by an unknown actor around May 14, 2024.  In May 202…

Cyberattack hits Cooper Health, affecting nearly 60K patients

A cyberattack on Cooper University Health Care last year may have exposed the data of nearly 60,000 current and former patients, according to the Camden-based health care system. After detecting unusual activity on its network in May 2024, Cooper “immediately” took steps to secure its systems and launched an investigation, it said in an alert posted online. Once Cooper determined that “certain data stored in our systems was potentially acquired …