Data Breach Alert: FDNY Exposes Personal Information Of 10,000 Patients Due To Lost Hard Drive – CBS New York

More than 10,000 people who had been helped by the FDNY EMS are now victims of a data breach due to an employee copying personal information onto a hard drive – and then losing it.

The FDNY made the announcement Friday, saying an agency employee who had authorized to access the records copied the data onto a personal external hard drive last March. The breach affects all patients treated and or transported by the EMS from 2011 to 2018.

via Data Breach Alert: FDNY Exposes Personal Information Of 10,000 Patients Due To Lost Hard Drive – CBS New York.