Chestnut Pathology Services, PC Data Breach (2014)
Chestnut Pathology Services, PC
mediumVERIS
Disclosed
January 1, 2014
4468 days ago
Records
67.0K
Confirmed
Root Cause
Improper Disposal
Industry
Technology
Description
In July 2010, the medical billing company dumped records and a Boston Globe photographer noticed them while dumping his own trash out. There ended up being 67,000 individual records that included names, addresses, Social Security numbers.