Dallas area mental health provider reports data breach impacting 8,600 clients

One of the county’s largest mental health service providers says the protected health information of some clients was shared without authorization.

Metrocare Services reported that nearly 8,600 clients may have been affected.

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The company said the issue began Sept. 9 when an employee sent an encrypted email from a work account to their personal email address, which was later shared on an unauthorized network.

"We thoroughly investigated this incident and worked with the employee to ensure the email was deleted from the inbox and the trash folders," Metrocare said. "There is no evidence that the personal health information shared was used in any way by anyone other than the one individual authorized to have the information."

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