800 impacted by billing employee's info sharing
A Pennsylvania hospital is notifying about 800 people treated in its emergency department that their personal information may have been compromised after being illegally disclosed by a former employee of an external billing company.
Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Hills said there is no evidence that information about medical histories or treatments was disclosed, but names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers were potentially compromised.
The billing company's employee was terminated after she copied personal information from the billing system over two years and then disclosing the information to an unauthorized third party.
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