As if wrestling with addiction and recovery wasn’t difficult enough, tens of thousands of patients of a rehab clinic in Pennsylvania may find their personal information hijacked and manipulated by identity thieves or extortionists.
An ElasticSearch database that was left open to the internet exposed about 4.9 million data points of personally identifiable information (PII) related to individuals seeking treatment at the Steps to Recovery addiction treatment facility in Levittown, Pa., which is located outside of Philadelphia.
