US Allina Health 2015 Technical Error (Q16345)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | US Allina Health 2015 Technical Error |
A data breach risk event |
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January 2015
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In a breach of patient privacy, Allina Hospitals & Clinics included information on eight people __ the fact that they are a patient, their email address, and the name of the company they worked for __ in a mass email that went to a quarter of a million patients in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Read more on News5. This was really an e-mail cock-up that started when the 8 patients e-mail servers bounced an e-mail back to Allina and Allinas system resent the mass e-mail out to all 250,000 patients again __ but now with the 8 individuals email addresses openly listed as recipients. (English)
