Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency, in Visalia, Calif., is notifying 845 people that of a data breach after an employee didn't encrypt email addresses when a recent email was sent, according to an ABC30 report.
In the email, the affected patients' email addresses were visible, as the employee sending the email did not put the email address in the blind carbon copy section of the email, according to Tammie Weyker, public information officer for Tulare County HHSA.
The data breach affects patients at Visalia (Calif.) Health Care Center and Farmersville (Calif.) Health Care Center, according to the report.
No health information was compromised, according to the report.
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