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Programming error exposed personal information in Fred Hutch database | GeekWire

Personal information of 5,000 people interested in taking part in vaccine trails through a program run in part by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center were exposed to the web.

A programming error in a database run by Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center exposed the personal information of 5,000 people to the web, GeekWire has learned.

The error was in a database that tracks inbound interest in taking part in vaccine trials through the Seattle Vaccine Trials Unit, a program run by Fred Hutch and the University of Washington.

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Personal information including names, email addresses, phone numbers and coded ID numbers assigned to people interested in participating in trials were inadvertently made accessible to people outside the organization, a Fred Hutch spokesperson said.

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