A hacked Kaiser Permanente employee’s emails led to breach of 70,000 patient records

Kaiser Permanente, the largest nonprofit health plan provider in the United States, has disclosed a data breach that exposed the sensitive health information of almost 70,000 patients.
In a notice to patients on June 3, Kaiser revealed that someone gained access to an employee’s emails at the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington on April 5 that contained protected health information — including patient names, dates of service, medical record numbers, and lab test result information. Financially sensitive information, including social security and credit card numbers, was not expos

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