Former DHHS employee, local Democratic official arrested in major privacy breach

Posted April 19, 2012 4:00 pm | Filed under State/Regional News
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(Updated at 4:00 p.m. Thursday) The State Law Enforcement Division has arrested a now-former state employee who is accused of downloading the personal information of more than 228,000 Medicaid recipients to his personal e-mail account. Christopher Lykes, 36, of Swansea, is charged with a total of six counts related to mishandling of confidential information. This [...]