US Office of the Medicaid Inspector General of New York Oct 2012 Technical Error (Q16717)
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A data breach risk event
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October 2012
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Office of the Medicaid Inspector General reports N.Y. breach The Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) sent out a release on Monday stating that an internal employee in New York had sent out 17,743 Medicaid patient records to their own email account on Oct. 12, 2012. Potentially-compromised information may have included patients first and last names, dates of birth, Medicaid client information numbers and Social Security numbers. According OMIG, the employee didnt have its consent to send out the email and has been placed on administrative leave. The New York State Inspector Generals office is conducting its own separate investigation. OMIG expects all employees to act in a professional, ethical manner while in the workplace, and will not tolerate behavior that leads to the rele (English)
