Officials Report Data Breach Involving 34K Patients at Santa Rosa Medical Facility
On Wednesday, officials from St. Joseph Health announced that a thumb drive containing the personal health records of 33,702 patients was stolen from a Santa Rose medical office on June 2. The drives contain data on patients who received X-ray services at the facility between Feb. 2, 2009 and May 13, 2014, including patients' area of body X-rayed, gender, medical record numbers, names, name of the X-ray technologist and the radiation level used to produce the X-ray.
- "Health Records of Nearly 34,000 Patients Stolen From Santa Rosa Office" (Cosin, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 6/11).