Amanda Chan follows up on a breach reported in June:
The Charlotte psychologist whose patient records were discovered at a county recycling facility last month contacted 1,590 of his patients via letter to inform them of the incident on Friday, his lawyer said.
Ervin Batchelor, owner of Carolina Center for Development and Rehabilitation, had his sons mistakenly take 23 boxes of confidential patient records to the Mecklenburg Recycling Center on June 24, said Sean Timmons, Batchelor’s lawyer.
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The records had patient names, contact information, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and medical histories, according to the letter sent to Batchelor’s patients.
Read more in the Charlotte Observer. Previous coverage here.