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New York

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Thu Jun 5, 2014, 09:19 PM Jun 2014

Man in Queens receiving private patient information from CVS

QUEENS, N.Y. (WABC) -- An Eyewitness News exclusive as private patient information, intended for a doctor, mistakenly faxed by a nationwide pharmacy chain to a man in Queens.

It's a breach that raises questions about the safety of your information when you get prescriptions filled.

This breach involves CVS which has thousands of pharmacies around the country. We were contacted by a food distributor from Queens who suddenly started getting faxes on his email from various CVS pharmacies in California.

There was a lot of private information on those faxes. And what's worse, he says those faxes kept coming, even after he flagged the company.

http://7online.com/news/queens-man-i-have-a-lot-of-information-that-i-shouldnt-have/95833/