Officials said the security breach , which happened on June 6 , prompted an internal review and the discovery of a second breach in 2012 in which less detailed information about more than 6,000 patients was mistakenly sent to job applicants . In both cases , the files were sent as training files to evaluate the skills of job applicants , Rady officials said . The investigation revealed that a similar breach happened in August , November and December of 2012 , when an employee mailed a file containing information on 6,307 patients to three job applicants as part of the evaluation process . That file had less information and did not include dates of birth , diagnoses , street addresses , or social security , insurance or credit card numbers . The hospital plans to notify the patients involved as soon as possible , Metcalf said . ;