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Sacramento County: Hundreds of personal records exposed in data breach

Posted on January 22, 2022 by Dissent

Jose Fabian provides details on a Sacramento County phishing incident reported to HHS last month:

Hundreds of records containing personal information of Sacramento County residents were exposed in a phishing attack last year, the county said.

Sacramento County said 2,096 protected health information and 816 personal identifiable records were exposed during a cyber attack on June 22, 2021. The extent of the breach was not known until Nov. 17 when a security audit was completed.

Read more at Fox40.

 

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