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Knopp Resigns as Wyoming CIO After Major Health Data Leak As Wyoming continues to assess the damages involved in a high-profile health data leak, CIO Gordon Knopp has quit his position. State Information Services Administrator Timothy Sheehan is Knopp's current replacement. May 19, 2021 •  Gordon Knopp is no longer CIO of Wyoming, according to an announcement yesterday from Gov. Mark Gordon. Knopp, along with Health Director Michael Ceballos, resigned from their positions following a high-profile leak of sensitive health-care data. The leak impacted more than one-quarter of Wyoming's po...

A one-two punch of health department-related data breaches over the past month have exposed hundreds of thousands of patient records in Pennsylvania and Wyoming. In Wyoming, COVID-19, influenza and blood alcohol test results for more than 164,000 people – more than a quarter of the state's population – were accidentally uploaded to a public-facing website this past week. And in Pennsylvania, a data breach potentially compromised the information of about 72,000 residents involved in the state's COVID-19 contact-tracing program. As of Monday, the state had not yet notified the impacted ind...

Phone Scammers Using Wyoming Information Breach as Advantage May 4, 2021 Telephone scammers are trying to take advantage of an accidental Wyoming Department of Health data release affecting over a quarter of the state’s population, department officials said. Scammers request insurance, Medicare, Medicaid or other financial information and in some cases look like they’re calling from state government numbers, department administrator Jeri Hendricks said in a statement. “No one representing the department will ask you for insurance, Medicare, Medicaid o...

The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is warning residents about fraudulent calls from people falsely claiming to represent the department in connection to a recently announced WDH health information breach. WDH recently described a mistaken exposure of laboratory test result data involving more than 164,000 Wyoming residents and others including hundreds from Colorado. Advertisement The incident involved COVID-19 and influenza test result data and breath alcohol test result files mistakenly uploaded by an employee to private and public online storage locations on servers belonging to GitHu...

The Wyoming Department of Health announced Tuesday that health information for thousands of Wyoming residents was accidentally leaked online. The exposed files included data from breath alcohol tests and COVID-19 and influenza tests that were electronically reported to the state for Wyoming residents, including name, address, date of birth, test results and dates of service for tests administered across the country since January 2020. The data did not contain social security numbers, or banking, financial or health insurance information. “We are taking this situation very seriously and e...