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Lake County Health Department announces two data breaches impacting nearly 25,000 patients

Posted on July 18, 2021 by Dissent

Sam Borcia reports:

The Lake County Health Department announced two data breaches, one of which occurred in 2019, that compromised the data of almost 25,000 people.

Jefferson McMillan-Wilhoit, the Chief Health Informatics and Technology Officer for the Lake County Health Department, said the first breach was discovered on July 22, 2019.

McMillan-Wilhoit told the Chicago Tribune that the first breach, which was disclosed earlier this month, occurred after an unencrypted email was sent to an internal employee’s personal email address.

Read more on Lake & McHenry County Scanner.

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