TX: UTMB warns 1,200 of identity theft threat

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=710b7dd80a0d2263

The University of Texas Medical Branch has mailed letters notifying 1,200 
patients that sensitive information about them had been available to a 
woman charged with identity theft in an unrelated case.

Officials sent out the letters this week after MedAssets, which the 
medical branch hired to assist with billing from third-party payers, 
warned of a security breach by one of its employees.

On Dec. 15, law enforcement officials notified MedAssets that a former 
employee had been arrested and charged with identity theft. The person 
also was alleged to have used a stolen identity to misrepresent herself 
and gain employment at Georgia-based MedAssets and had been involved in 
other instances of identity theft. None of the charges, however, are 
related to information she obtained during her employment with MedAssets, 
medical branch officials say.

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