High Point, N.C.-based Carolina Anesthesiology has been found to have a non-password protected database holding 21,344 patient records, according to an April 28 report in Tech Radar Pro.
Potentially leaked information includes patient names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, insurance information, anesthesia summaries, diagnoses and physician’s notes.
Currently, there is no evidence that any of the information is possessed by “bad actors,” according to the report.
“Our cyber-security team immediately launched an internal investigation upon receiving an email tip in mid-February 2025 about a possible data breach. Our investigation found that Carolina Anesthesiology, who regularly provides anesthesia services at select facilities, misconfigured the technology service used for billing data, exposing some of their patient data,” Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health, a partner of Carolina Anesthesiology, told Tech Radar.
“We immediately shut down all data feeds to Carolina Anesthesiology and, as a courtesy, notified the regular governing entities. We continue to learn more from the Carolina Anesthesiology team about their plan to notify their patients of this breach. All data feeds remain off until this issue has been satisfactorily addressed.”
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