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88,000 patients at risk after computer theft
From: rchick <rchicker () etiolated org>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 09:46:20 -0400
Thursday, May 01, 2008 http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1209644107324690.xml&coll=1 STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Computer equipment stolen from an administrative office in Rosebank in December contained personal information about 88,000 patients who have been treated at Staten Island University Hospital. After four months with no arrests, hospital administrators are just now beginning the process of sending letters to patients whose names, Social Security and health insurance numbers were contained in computer files on a desktop computer and a backup hard drive stolen Dec. 29 from one of the hospital's finance offices at 1 Edgewater Plaza. "The hospital is in the process of issuing a letter of information to each patient involved in which one year of free credit monitoring is being offered," said a hospital statement released yesterday afternoon by spokeswoman Arleen Ryback. The time frame for when patients whose information was included in the data were treated was not immediately known. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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