Tuesday, November 23, 2010

New York-Presbyterian Hospital & Columbia University Medical Center — 6,800 Records

Sometime in July, 2010 paitent information, including names, clinical data, and in a few cases social security numbers, was made available to the public via the internet. The exposure was discovered by a paitent’s family member on July 29, 2010.
The cause of the breach has been determined to have been caused by paitent data being inadvertently placed on a server that was accessible from outside.
Read more about this story here: http://www.phiprivacy.net/?tag=newyork-presbyterian

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