Ascoa
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least FL
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| Systematic Automation Inc
had a data breach in 2008,
in California.
Police filed possession of stolen property charges against a prison parolee who was arrested for having
a computer with more than 40,000 names, addresses and Social Security numbers of California residents.
The computer was stolen from Systematic automation Inc., which processes individualized annual statements
customized for employees with a summary of their health and other employee benefits.
The hard drive contained employee information from 19 agencies. Some of the agencies
include the Modesto City schools, Clovis Unified School District, Los Angeles Department
of water and Power, Nestle Waters North America and the Torrance Unified School District.
(40,000 records involved)
[source].
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