Laborers’ Health & Welfare Trust Fund for Northern California discovered that a computer glitch caused certain consumer health information to be processed incorrectly. The incident affected the processing of IRS Form 1095-B which included some patient health data in California.
According to the reports, some personal health information of workers were sent to other plan participants and beneficiaries. Affected information included beneficiary names and names of dependents, Social Security numbers, and health plan coverage information. According to a press release, the Fund Office has notified potentially affected individuals personally, and will provide free credit monitoring to them.
The Fund Office mentioned that it will be taking steps to strengthen training processes and tighten security measures.
According to the press release –
The Fund Office has notified participants and provided credit monitoring services to all those participants and beneficiaries affected.The Fund Office has also instituted stronger security measures to guard against future mishaps.
According to the Wikipedia –
A computer glitch is the failure of a system, usually containing a computing device, to complete its functions or to perform them properly.In public declarations, glitch is used to suggest a minor fault which will soon be rectified and is therefore used as a euphemism for a bug, which is a factual statement that a programming fault is to blame for a system failure.
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