CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Wyoming's health director and chief information officer have resigned after a data leak involving the personal information of tens of thousands of people who were tested for the coronavirus.
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Wyoming Chief Information Officer Gordon Knopp stepped down Tuesday amid the exposure of personal information collected from thousands of residents who had been tested for the coronavirus, Gov. Mark Gordon announced.
Knopp, who was appointed to the Cabinet-level position in 2019, resigned alongside Wyoming Department of Health Director Mike Ceballos. Timothy Sheehan, the state’s information services administrator, is serving as interim CIO, Gordon said.
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“I want to thank Mike and Gordon for their service to the state of Wyoming, and I appreciate their efforts in guiding their agencies through the challenges of the past two years,” the governor said in a brief press release.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming s health director and chief information officer have resigned after a data leak involving the personal information of tens of thousands of people who were tested
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon announced Tuesday that he has appointed Deputy Director Stefan Johansson as Interim Director of the Wyoming Department of Health, and Information Services Administrator Timothy Sheehan as Interim Chief Information Officer of the Department of Enterprise Technology Services. The appointments are in response to the resignations of WDH Director Mike Ceballos and ETS Chief Information Officer Gordon Knopp.
The resignations of Ceballos and Knopp come after the data breach that was announced late last month by the Wyoming Department of Health that exposed the health information of nearly 165,000 Wyoming residents. The WDH, via a media release issued in April, said they became aware of a breach involving protected health information on March 10 and that it was discovered that a Department of Health employee working with computer code accidentally released COVID-19 test results, as well as blood alcohol test results going back to 2012. Governor Gordon, in a medi
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Wyoming's health director and chief information officer have resigned after a data leak involving the personal information of tens of thousands of people who were tested for the coronavirus. A state Department of Health employee working with computer code accidentally released COVID-19 test results, as well…