Yorgen Edholm--President and CEO; Accellion Inc.

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WARNING: Sending Sensitive Information via Mail, FedEx Is a Security Risk

By Yorgen Edholm--President and CEO; Accellion Inc.

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Last month Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center of NY suffered an embarrassing data breach after a weekly shipment of compact disks (CDs) went missing while in the custody of FedEx. The CDs were being transported to the hospital from its billing and claims partner, Siemens. More than 130,000 medical records were exposed.

Published August 4, 2010