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California Department of Public Health

California Department of Public Health Data Breach (2013)

California Department of Public Health

lowVERIS
Disclosed

May 6, 2013

4708 days ago

Records

2.0K

Confirmed

Root Cause

Improper Disposal

Industry

Government

Description

A reel containing images of 2,000 State of California Birth Records from May through September of 1974 was found in a publicly accessible location. Names, Social Security numbers, addresses, and certain types of medical information were in the birth record images. People in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, or Tehama counties and who were born or had a child born in 1974 between May and September were affected.