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It did: 3,182 patients; tool unnamed

It did: 3,182 patients, one spreadsheet, one unapproved public chatbot. The part nobody in our record says is which tool.

“Johns Hopkins alerts 3,000+ patients after data sent to AI tool.”

WMAR-2 News headline (October 2026), shared on r/artificial on 26 October 2026

Recorded 27 October 2026. Our ruling means: we tried to break it and could not.

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9 receipts: 3 support the claim, 0 contradict it, 6 add context. 2 figures on the record, 1 traced to a quoted receipt.

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  1. 1Supports the claimwmar2news.com ↗

    a worker uploaded a spreadsheet to a public AI tool that the hospital had not approved

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  2. 2Supports the claimbaltimoresun.com ↗

    Johns Hopkins Bayview is notifying 3,182 patients after an employee uploaded personal health information to an unapproved public AI tool.

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  3. 3Supports the claimcbsnews.com ↗

    an employee uploaded the spreadsheet to a public third-party AI platform not approved for use

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  4. 4Contextwmar2news.com ↗

    medical record numbers, account numbers, the department that treated them, medications given and the names of their providers

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  5. 5Contextwmar2news.com ↗

    the information did not include Social Security numbers, financial account details or other identifying information

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  6. 6Contexthoodline.com ↗

    deleted the AI prompt, the thread, and the uploaded document from the tool

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  7. 7Contextcbsnews.com ↗

    contacting the company that operates the platform to request deletion

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  8. 8Contextwmar2news.com ↗

    The hospital also asked the company that runs the AI tool to delete the data

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  9. 9Contextcbsnews.com ↗

    JHBMC began mailing letters to patients whose information was identified during its review

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