A story from AP:
New data spill shows risk of online health records
Published: Aug 21, 2011 4:45 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see.
There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors' notes. Among the files were summaries that spelled out, in painstaking detail, a trucker's crushed fingers, a maintenance worker's broken ribs and one man's bout with sexual dysfunction.
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