A large staffing firm that performed COVID-19 contact tracing for Pennsylvania and exposed the private medical information of about 72,000 residents will pay $2.7 million in a settlement with the Justice Department and a company whistleblower, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health paid Atlanta-based Insight Global tens of millions of dollars to administer the state’s contact tracing program during the height of the pandemic. The company was responsible for identifying and contacting people who had been exposed to the coronavirus so they could quarantine.
Employees used unauthorized Google accounts — readily viewable online — to store names, phone numbers, email addresses, COVID-19 exposure status, sexual orientations and other information about residents who had been reached for contact tracing, even though the company’s contract with the state required it to safeguard such data.
Feature: Innovation turns switch producer into global energy solutions provider
Grandparents and a grandchild are among those killed in a police chase in Canada
Jerry Seinfeld says 'extreme left' politically correct mob has killed comedy
Steve Gleason, 47, reveals his daily 'exorcism' as he battles ALS: Ex
Former France soccer player Karembeu says two of his relatives have been killed in New Caledonia
Selena's musician brother AB Quintanilla has on
House Republicans launch investigation into federal funding for universities amid campus protests
Abuse allegations against former Olympic rower, coach found to be credible, US Rowing probe says
At least 2,000 feared dead in Papua New Guinea landslide. These are some challenges rescuers face
Want to avoid Alzheimer's? What the experts do themselves to slash their risk of getting the memory
Brit, 34, 'kills Russian paedophile with single punch for saying he wanted to have sex with his 15
Court in the Central African Republic issues international arrest warrant for former president