UW Medicine mistakenly exposed information on nearly 1 million patients
The medical files of nearly 1 million patients of University of Washington Medicine were visible on the internet for at least three weeks in December, UW Medicine said Wednesday.
The files, which were exposed Dec. 4 because of “an internal human error,” were records the hospital system uses to document when it shares patient information, for instance with public-health authorities or law enforcement.
The files contain patients’ names, medical-record numbers, a description of the information shared and a description of who it was shared with, UW Medicine said in a news release. They do not include specific health information, social security numbers or financial information, according to UW Medicine.
Some of the files contain the name of a lab test or the name of a research study. In those cases, the files may have noted specific conditions patients were tested or screened for, such as HIV or dementia, Dr. Timothy Dellit, chief medical officer at UW Medicine, said at a news conference.
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That is a massive data breach that could do a lot of harm. 
