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4,000 people at risk of ID theft, state says
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:33:22 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006609160352 September 16, 2006 BY KIM NORRIS FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER The Michigan Department of Community Health will offer identity theft protection to more than 4,000 current and former Michigan residents who have been participating in a scientific study because an apparent theft may have put personal information at risk. A flash drive -- a portable storage device containing names, current addresses, telephone, Social Security numbers and birth dates of the people participating in the study -- has been missing from a secured floor in an MDCH building since Aug. 4 and is presumed to have been stolen, MDCH spokesman T.J. Bucholz said. The missing data did not include any health information, medical records or laboratory information. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 349 incidents over 6 years.
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