Allina Health Data Breach (2015)

In a breach of patient privacy, Allina Hospitals & Clinics included information on eight people __ the fact that they are a patient, their email address, and the name of the company they worked for __ in a mass email that went to a quarter of a million patients in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Read more on News5. This was really an e-mail cock-up that started when the 8 patients' e-mail servers bounced an e-mail back to Allina and Allina's system resent the mass e-mail out to all 250,000 patients again __ but now with the 8 individuals' email addresses openly listed as recipients.