East Coast State Has Potential Medicaid Data Breach

What happened and where? North Carolina Health Department announced a possible Medicaid data breach.

What personal data was included? confidential health information of 1,615 Medicaid patients. Only 2 Social Security Numbers were included, as most patients used Medicaid ID numbers. No birth dates were included.
 

How did it occur? a state employee sent unencrypted data to a local health agency

WRAL | DHHS reveals potential Medicaid data breach