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Johns Hopkins Bayview tells 3,182 patients an employee put their health data into a public AI tool

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Source: Baltimore Sun

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore is notifying 3,182 patients after an employee uploaded their personal health information to an unapproved public AI tool, the Baltimore Sun reported on 24 October.

Why it matters

Staff use of unapproved chatbots is now a source of reportable patient-data breaches at US hospitals.

When
24 Oct 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0424
Who
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
System
an unapproved public AI tool (unnamed)
Operator
a Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center employee
Type
personal health information of 3,182 patients uploaded
Status
patients notified, reported 24 Oct 2026; disclosed by Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, notifying patients · Incident ledger

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Baltimore Sun. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 25 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page as saved on 25 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2026-0424: “Johns Hopkins Bayview tells 3,182 patients an employee put their health data into a public AI tool.” wheresthe.ai, 24 Oct 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-johns-hopkins-bayview-patient-data-put-into-public-ai-tool-2026-10/ (source: Baltimore Sun).

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