NV: Hospital offering credit monitoring in leak case

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http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13968407?nclick_check=1

LAS VEGAS—University Medical Center in Las Vegas is offering free use
of a credit monitoring service to people whose confidential records
may have been leaked to outsiders.

Hospital chief executive Kathy Silver told Nevada lawmakers yesterday
(Wednesday) that investigators still don't know how many patient
records are affected.

In testimony before the Legislative Committee on Health Care, Silver
said the FBI is investigating whether federal patient privacy laws
were broken.

She says hospital officials were alerted last month that perhaps 141
accident victims' personal information was leaked Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.
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