The following data breaches occurred over the past two weeks, starting with the most recent.
1. A computer was stolen from a procedure room at Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley, Calif., compromising the protected health information of 563 patients.
2. York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health employees may have unintentionally downloaded protected patient health information onto their non-work computers. Employees who accessed their WellSpan email accounts from a computer or devices outside the WellSpan network may have downloaded and saved documents with patient information, though no employees thus far have said they found any such documents or information on their devices.
3. The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services is notifying 1.3 million people that their data may potentially be compromised after computer hackers accessed the system's server.
4. An employee radiologist at a Long Island branch of Garden City, N.Y.-based NRAD Medical Associates accessed the protected health information of approximately 97,000 patients without authorization.
5. An investigation into the data breach at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego last week discovered an earlier data breach occurring in August, November and December 2012. In the 2012 data breach, a different employee emailed a training exercise with private data of 6,307 patients on it to three job candidates, and six more candidates saw the data when they came to the hospital and used the computers.
6. Minneapolis-based Medtronic reported two potential data breaches that occurred last year, likely caused by hackers who were able to access the computer systems. No patient data was stolen, but Medtronic was unable to locate some patient records.
7. Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego is notifying the parents of more than 20,000 patients of a potential data breach after an employee mistakenly emailed a spreadsheet containing protected patient information to job applicants.
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