ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) – According to a Detroit health care system, about 2,700 people could use an online scheduling vulnerability to register in turn for COVID-19 vaccinations.
Beaumont Health said it has determined that a user has publicly shared an unauthorized planning path.
“This allowed 2,700 people to ‘queue,'” the health system of eight hospitals said in a press release on Sunday. Beaumont will cancel all events that used the unauthorized path.
“These appointments violate Beaumont’s ethical distribution framework based on Michigan’s mandatory vaccine guidelines,” said Hans Keil, Beaumont Health’s senior vice president and chief information officer.
The problem will not affect well-planned vaccine appointments, it added.
Beaumont’s information technology team detected unusual activity on Saturday and stopped it on its Epic electronic medical record. Personal medical records were not compromised and users were unable to access hospital data, Beaumont said.
Beaumont has reported other recent security vulnerabilities, Detroit News said. In July, it announced that an “unauthorized third party” had gained access to employee email accounts containing personal information about up to 6,000 patients. In April, it reported a data breach the previous year that officials said could have revealed the personal information of up to 112,000 people.