Confidential medical data - including patient names and diagnoses - for 20,000 people seen in Stanford Hospital's emergency room was posted on a public website for nearly a year before hospital officials found out about the security breach.
According to a San Francisco Chronicle report, hospital officials, who learned of the breach last month, said that the information has been removed and that they are investigating the incident.
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