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Tennessee: 10 stolen HCA computers contained people's records
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:30:20 -0400 (EDT)
Courtesy pogowasright.org http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/state/15297743.htm Posted on Thu, Aug. 17, 2006 Rose French, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. - HCA Inc. said 10 computers containing Medicare and Medicaid billing information and records of employees and physicians were stolen from one of the company's regional offices. HCA officials won't say where or when the theft occurred because they believe that might help the thieves, who authorities believe were after computer hardware, not personal identity information. "We don't want to tip them off they may have information that they might use to perpetuate identity theft," said HCA spokesman Jeff Prescott. The Nashville-based for-profit hospital operator reports on its Web site that the FBI is investigating the incident. The computers held thousands of files on Medicare and Medicaid patients treated at HCA hospitals in Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas or Washington state between 1996 and 2006. The machines contained some patient names and Social Security numbers but no addresses or dates of birth. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 142 million compromised records in 304 incidents over 6 years.
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