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By Darrell Pruitt DDS
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Aspen Dental has been hit by a cyber attack. Aspen has over a thousand dental offices across the nation, and even though their official website says there are no signs of patient information being compromised, the American Dental Association is calling it a “breach,” since the attack involved ransomware.
If Aspen Practices each maintain dental records on 10,000 patients, and there are over a thousand Aspen locations, that would mean more than 10 million patients’ records were potentially breached. Texas has 58 Aspen locations – second only to Florida which has 124. (There are three Aspen locations near me in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex).
Last of all, history has shown that businesses which suffer one ransomware attack are likely to be targeted a second or even third time. It never ends. And then there are the HIPAA violations and remediation … This is bad for Aspen Dental.
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it has been going on 3 months since the data breach and my wife and i are still paying for service that was not done . why,, i have been calling the corp office every week and are just getting run around ..
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ASPEN,
Aspen Dental is a high pressure firm trying to sell you treatments you don’t need, and have been sued by Attorney General office for illegal business practices in Syracuse, NY.
They will try and sell a credit card to pay for service you don’t need.
They will try and bill you for service your insurance has already pay for.
Contact your attorney general’s office of consumer protection dept If you suspect fraud.
-A
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