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TX: Houston Health Department working to fix website ‘glitch’ that exposed patients’ COVID test results

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Dissent

KTRK reports:

 The Houston Health Department is warning its clients after a glitch in the system exposed COVID-19 test results and their personal information.

The health department said it was made aware of the potential breach on the night of Jan. 6 and the portal was deactivated within 48 hours. According to a release from the department, the incident is not hacking-related and there is no evident of malicious intent or misuse of the data.

During that time, about 3,500 portal users potentially had access to about 10,000 COVID results, including patient names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, testing dates and test results.

Read more at abc13.

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