Western Montana Clinic patients told of data breach compromising personal info

MISSOULA — Patients of Western Montana Clinic are receiving notification letters about a data breach that compromised their personal information.

The clinic confirmed a "phishing email incident" allowed occasional access to employee emails containing patient data.

While the breach did not affect the clinic's electronic health records system, the investigation revealed that compromised emails may have contained patient information, including contact details, dates of birth, treating physician names, internal identification numbers, service dates, and medication and treatment information.

"It's pretty scary. I mean, you have to go and like change all your passwords and freeze your credit and stuff like that because you don't know where it's gonna go," said Preslie Booth, a patient who rec