Ex-DHHS employee pleads guilty in SC data breach

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) âone space€one space” A former employee at South Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services has pleaded guilty in connection with a breach of data from the agency. Attorney General Alan Wilson says 38-year-old Christopher Lykes Jr. pleaded guilty in Richland County on Tuesday to four counts of willful examination of private records by a public employee and one count of criminal conspiracy. Lykes was indicted in February. Authorities say the agency project manager compiled more than 228,000 Medicaid patients’ personal information on a spreadsheet and sent it to his private email. Lykes faces up to 25 years in prison when he is sentenced later.