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Staten Island University Hospital 88, 000 patient information stolen
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 18:59:04 -0500
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/05/hospital_admits_error_in_handl.html Hospital admits error in handling I.D. theft by By Glenn Nyback Sunday May 11, 2008, 5:15 PM STATEN ISLAND, N.Y As tens of thousands of Staten Island University Hospital patients seethe over the decision by hospital administrators to wait four months before informing them that a computer containing their personal information was stolen, SIUH's chief executive conceded officials could have handled the situation differently. The hospital only 10 days ago began informing 88,000 patients whose names, Social Security and health insurance numbers were included on a password-protected desktop computer stolen from the hospital's Rosebank billing office in December. "In taking a look at this, could it have been done sooner? I believe perhaps it could have been done sooner," said Anthony Ferreri, SIUH president and CEO. He explained that the hospital decided that before notifying people, it chose to complete an eight-to-nine-week process to identify a credit-monitoring program for all 88,000 patients with the national credit-reporting agency Equifax. [...] Most patients affected included those who were treated at the hospital in 2007, but 29 people, treated between 2001 and 2006 who have outstanding billing accounts, are also in that database, according to hospital spokesman John Demoleas, who added that all the letters had been mailed out by May 1. _______________________________________________ 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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