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Patient data breach at Rady Children's

U-T San Diego - (California) Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego notified over 20,000 patients June 17 that its employees mistakenly forwarded some of their private health information to about 15 job applicants June 6 and in 2012. In the June incident the employee accidentally emailed a spreadsheet containing patients' health information to applicants for data management jobs and in 2012, three job candidates viewed an email file containing patient data while 6 others viewed the data while testing on company computers.

Source: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jun/17/rady-breach-data-patients-childrens-hospital/

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