Utah health department reports another data breach

Published January 17, 2013 12:46am ET



SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Personal information for Utah Medicaid recipients has once again been compromised after a USB memory stick containing the data was lost, the state Department of Health announced Wednesday.

Data for about 6,000 recipients were lost by an employee of an outside contractor while traveling, the agency said in a statement.

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