{"id":295034,"date":"2010-02-08T20:10:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a87839ed970b"},"modified":"2010-02-08T21:04:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:04:01","slug":"social-security-numbers-of-nearly-50000-californians-disclosed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295034","title":{"rendered":"Social Security numbers of nearly 50,000 Californians disclosed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0128777afeae970c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Social\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128777afeae970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0128777afeae970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\"><\/img><\/a> California health officials have accidentally disclosed the Social Security numbers of nearly 50,000 of the state\u2019s most vulnerable residents.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers were printed on the outside of envelopes sent to elderly patients of the Adult Day Health Care program, many of whom are blind or have Alzheimer\u2019s disease or other cognitive disabilities. The Department of Health Care Services sent the envelopes, which contained change-of-benefit notices,\u00a0 Feb. 1. <\/p>\n<p>Officials have since sent follow-up letters advising recipients to destroy the envelopes and are advising patients to contact credit agencies to put a freeze on new accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy isn\u2019t the state doing it for them?\u201d asked Lydia Missaelides<span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><\/span>, executive director of the California Assn. for Adult Day services, who noted that the disclosure exposed the patients to identity theft.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>State employees mistakenly included the Social Security numbers in a list of patient addresses, said Karen Johnson, chief deputy director of the Department of Health Care Services.\u00a0 The department sent the list to an outside contractor, who printed and mailed the envelopes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Jack Dolan in Sacramento<\/p>\n<p><em>File photo \/ David Fitzgerald \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California health officials have accidentally disclosed the Social Security numbers of nearly 50,000 of the state\u2019s most vulnerable residents. The numbers were printed on the outside of envelopes sent to elderly patients of the Adult Day Health Care program, many of whom are blind or have Alzheimer\u2019s disease or other cognitive disabilities. The Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}