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Lawmakers' prescription data at risk after data breach

13 points by rationalist ago | 2 comments

FlyThruTheSun |next [-]

Somewhere a senator is sweating way harder about their finasteride prescription showing up in a leak than they ever did about voting against data privacy legislation lol

The breach itself is pretty standard... names, birthdays, prescription info from a third party vendor. But RXNT waited until the last possible day to tell the attending physicians office. The breaches happened March 1 and 3 and congress is just now finding out in may.

rationalist |previous [-]

Maybe now they might take this stuff seriously?

One can only hope.