By Jeremy Coumbes on February 26, 2021 at 4:08pm
An oversight by a State of Illinois employee lead to the mailing of protected health information to the wrong address for some 8,000 Illinoisans.
Illinois Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT), the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS), and the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) (collectively, the Departments) collectively notified the media today of the security incident with the State of Illinois’ Integrated Eligibility System (IES).
According to the announcement, a state employee matched a file received from the National Change of Address registry at the United States Postal Service against an out-of-date client file.