US Goldthwait Associates Jun 2010 Technical Error (Q16175)
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A data breach risk event
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A data breach risk event |
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June 2010
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The former owners of a medical billing practice that dumped sensitive health _records at the Georgetown Transfer Station have agreed, along with doctors involved, to pay $140,000 in a settlement with the Massachusetts attorney generals office. A Globe photographer _noticed the pile of paper _records when he was tossing out his own trash in July 2010. The pile consisted of _records for more than 67,000 people, including names, _addresses, Social_ Security numbers, pathology reports for people tested for various kinds of cancer, and other test _results. The photographer collected some of the documents, and the Globe contacted the hospitals that had contracted with the pathologists who had shared information with the billing company. State and federal laws _require health records to be dispo (English)
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