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Data breach reported at Kootenai Health

| April 3, 2024 2:14 PM

COEUR d'ALENE — Kootenai Health on Wednesday reported a data breach.

At the beginning of March, Kootenai Health discovered suspicious activity in its IT network, a press release said.

"Our monitoring tools immediately quarantined the activity and we isolated all impacted systems to limit any potential impact," the release said. "We also engaged a team of cybersecurity experts to investigate the incident and bring our systems online in a safe and secure manner. "

The release said there was no impact on operations.

An investigation continues. 

"We have no evidence that any information has been misused," the release said. "A comprehensive review of the potentially affected data is ongoing and once complete, we will reach out to impacted individuals with more information."