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PA AG Begins Looking Into Contact Tracing Data Breach

The Pennsylvania attorney general said Wednesday his agency has begun looking into a breach of COVID-19 contact tracing data that may have compromised private information of some 72,000 people. The state Health Department disclosed two weeks ago that employees of a contact tracing vendor ignored security rules and created unauthorized documents outside the state’s secure computer systems. The company, Atlanta-based Insight Global, acknowledged it mishandled sensitive information and apologized.

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