"Yakima Neighborhood Health Services Notice of Data Security Incident"

Yakima Neighborhood Health Services ("YNHS") recently learned of a data security incident that may have impacted data belonging to certain current and former patients.  On October 4, 2022, a file containing certain individuals' personal and protected information was inadvertently distributed to one individual.  Upon learning of this accidental disclosure, YNHS took steps to ensure the recipient deleted the file from their possession.  YNHS has no evidence that any information potentially involved in this incident has been misused, but out of an abundance of caution, YNHS is informing affected individuals about the steps they can take to help protect their information.  The potentially affected information may include individuals' names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, and medical treatment locations.  On November 10, 2022, YNHS completed the process of identifying current address information for the affected individuals in order to create a written notification of the incident and send it via US mail.

Dark Reading reports: "Yakima Neighborhood Health Services Notice of Data Security Incident"