Data Breach in the district of Washington Health

This article is about a data breach that happened at Washington Health District. A Health District in the State of Washington has made its second data breach announcement of 2022. On January 24, the district confirmed that personal data may have been compromised when an unauthorized individual compromised an employee’s email account on December 21 2021. An internal investigation concluded that while no documents appeared to have been opened, accessed, or downloaded, the attacker may have ‘previewed’ clients’ protected health information (PHI). The potential disclosure may have affected 1,058 individuals and involved data including names, dates of birth, case numbers, counselor’s names, test results and dates of urinalysis, medication received and date of last dose.

 

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