SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Sensitive data that was compromised in a massive Utah Department of Health records breach had been lingering on state computers for months, instead of being erased within a day.
Department chief David Patton noted that violation of security protocol at a Wednesday community forum for the hundreds of thousands of people whose personal information was exposed in the attack uncovered last month. Patton says the data also was behind a weak password.
Up to 780,000 people were affected, though about a few dozen attended the meeting.
State officials are offering a year of free credit monitoring to people whose Social Security numbers were taken.
Attendees asked whether anyone at the state is being disciplined for the breach.
Patton says his office is concentrating on helping victims rather than finding culprits.
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