US Fairfax County Oct 2012 Technical Error (Q15326)
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A data breach risk event
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A data breach risk event |
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October 2012
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Fairfax County, Virginia issued the following release yesterday about a breach that does not appear on HHSs public breach tool and that was not previously known to this site. They say a total of 595 individuals were affected, but the number whose PHI were involved was not specified: Since a 2012 unauthorized data release by the third party vendor, Meridian, managing its multi-function devices used for scanning, faxing and printing documents, Fairfax County Government has contacted, or attempted to contact, individuals impacted by the disclosure of electronic protected health information (ePHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) exposed to the Internet. Notification letters have been mailed to all with available contact information. This notice is being published to locate curre (English)
