The confidentiality of more than 26,000 Medicaid recipients' medical information was broken earlier this year, country officials said friday as they prepared to notify those individuals about the hack.The info -- including names, medical procedure codes, birth dates, diagnoses and Medicaid identification numbers -- was sent to a fired Department of Human Services employee's personal email account, a department spokesman said Friday.The department discovered the information in an email on Aug. 7 spell conducting research for its defense of a federal lawsuit filed by an undisclosed someone over her dismissal from her job as a payment integrity coding analyst, spokesman Amy Webb said.The email was sent to Farrar's personal account on mar 23 within minutes of a discussion over issues that led to the person's firing the next day, Webb said.