Data breach at Mass. hospital affects almost 7,000 patients

St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton, Mass., which is part of the Steward Health Care System in Boston, has notified 6,831 patients whose billing data might have been breached after documents that were supposed to be shredded were removed from a facility slated for demolition. The hospital ...

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