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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 population. According to the Associated Press, Knopp couldn t be reached for comment on the reason for his resignation, and the governor s spokesperson declined to comment on the personnel changes. ....
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. âWe are taking this situation very seriously and extend a sincere apology to anyone affected,â Director Michael Ceballos said in a statement. ....
GovInfoSecurity HealthInfoSec) • April 30, 2021 The Wyoming health department is the latest entity to experience a PHI leak on GitHub. Recent incidents involving inadvertent exposure of patient data on GitHub, a software development and version control platform designed for collaboration, point to the need to ensure that data loss prevention tools are implemented, available security controls are leveraged and employees are made aware of the risks involved in using internet-facing platforms. In the most recent incident, COVID-19 test results and other sensitive data of 164,000 individuals collected by the Wyoming Department of Health were exposed on GitHub. In another incident earlier this month, the PHI of 136,000 individuals was accidentally exposed on GitHub by an employee of revenue cycle management vendor Med-Data Inc. ....
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According to a statement issued Tuesday by the Wyoming Department of Health, files were mistakenly uploaded by an official to private and public online repositories on servers belonging to GitHub.com. ....