Pennsylvania firing vendor that mishandled virus data
Pennsylvania firing vendor that mishandled virus data
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Pennsylvania is firing a company that performed COVID-19 contact tracing and exposed the private medical information of tens of thousands of residents, state officials said Thursday.
Employees of Insight Global used unauthorized Google accounts readily viewable online to store names, phone numbers, email addresses, COVID-19 exposure status, sexual orientations and other information about residents who had been reached for contact tracing. The company s contract with the state required it safeguard people s data.
The Department of Health said last month that at least 72,000 people were impacted.
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Pennsylvania is firing Insight Global, a company that performed COVID-19 contact tracing and exposed the private medical information of tens of thousands of.
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