Kaiser Permanente Employee Data Breached
Almost 30,000 Kaiser Permanente employees working in northern California will be receiving notification letters this weekend informing them of a major security breach that has taken place causing their personal information to be compromised.
The information includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth for the Kaiser employees. A press release issued by Kaiser indicated police officers have arrested a person who had computer files with Kaiser human resources information, and that person was arrested in late December.
Mia Garza was arrested by San Ramon police on December 23 and now faces two charges of receiving stolen property, two counts identity theft, and two counts of forgery. It remains unclear how Garza came to possess the Kaiser files, and police officials haven't speculated how she came into possession of the computer data.
