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Utah Dept. of Technology Services

Located: Salt Lake City, Utah

No. of records exposed: 780,000 patient files related to Medicaid claims stolen from a server by hackers believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe, Utah’s DTS disclosed in April. In May, Utah CIO Steven Fletcher resigned due to it.

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