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Alabama Clinic Patient Info Exposed 3+ Years

Saturday, Sep 13 2014
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A clinic in Alabama recently notified 7,000 patients of data breach. So reports Healthcare IT News.

Diatherix Laboratories discovered data stored on a third party server was not secure. The information, including each patient's name, address, medical history and social security number was visible to outside parties for more than three years.

Despite the data remaining unsecured for almost three years, the company's investigation revealed that only recently--in March 2014--did someone outside of the company access it.

Read the full article from Healthcare IT News.

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