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Medical group fined $140K for tossing patients health records into public dump

Names, Social Security numbers, and medical diagnoses for more than 67,000 Massachusetts residents in the US were tossed into a public dump as is no redacting, no shredding, no nothing according to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley. The records included pathology reports for people tested for various kinds of cancer, along with other test results, according to the Boston Globe. Each of the four pathology groups and the Gagnons agreed to pay a total of $140,000 for civil penalties, attorney fees, and a data protection fund.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/01/15/medical-patients-health-records-dump/

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