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Heartland Alliance Provides Notice of Data Security Incident

CHICAGO, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Heartland Alliance, a social justice and human rights organization headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, has experienced a data security incident that may have involved personal and protected health information belonging to employees, directors, independent contractors, and certain individuals who sought health care or participated in other Heartland programs. Heartland is not aware of misuse of any information impacted by this incident. Out of an abundance of caution, beginning on December 15, 2022, Heartland provided notice of the incident to potentially affected individuals, including information about steps they can take to protect their personal and protected health information. For context, on or around January 26, 2022, Heartland discovered a potential data security incident impacting certain systems. The potentially affected personal and protected health information included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, bank account numbers, and some pieces of medical or health information. In addition to the notice sent to potentially affected individuals, is offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services, as well as providing a toll-free call center to answer questions about the incident and address related concerns. The privacy and security of personal and protected health information are very important to .