I was caught in an email storm like this one time. Someone at a large insurance company accidentally sent an email containing a few patient names/dobs to a gro

I was caught in an email storm like this one time. Someone at a large insurance company accidentally sent an email containing a few patient names/dobs to a group-email mailing list of at least 1000+ outside emails. It took about 2 months before the storm finally ended. It became comical how many responders to the email chastised the original sender for "HIPAA violations" using Reply-All thereby inadvertently committing the same infraction themselves because the original email was included at the bottom of the reply. Also, several times, after 2-3 days of quiet, someone would come back from vacation and reply-all with "I think you sent this to the wrong person", thereby starting the storm all over again. The company of the original sender seemed powerless to stop it, but I always wondered if they could have just disabled/deleted that group-email mailing list.