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Erlanger employees' names, identification lost
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:48:45 -0400
http://www.tfponline.com/absolutenm/templates/breaking.aspx?articleid=5100&zoneid=41 Thousands of Erlanger hospital employees' names and personal identifying information stored electronically disappeared from a locked office on Sept. 15, and employees are hearing about the loss in letters sent to their homes this weekend, hospital officials said. ... According to the letters, sent Friday afternoon to about 4,150 current and former employees thought to be affected and about 2,050 current employees who were not, the names and accompanying personal information were stored on a USB storage device, also known as a "jump drive." The database information was limited to names and Social Security numbers, Erlanger officials said. ... Erlanger officials said an employee who was authorized to use the information was working with the data in a "secured area," and noticed on Sept. 15 that the device was missing. It remains unclear whether the information was lost, misplaced, or was stolen. Erlanger officials said there was no sign of a break-in to the office where the employee was working. "This guy was working on it ... it was on his desk, and then it was gone," Erlanger board Chairman Bob Johnson said. He said he thinks the storage device was thrown away accidentally. "It should take care of itself," he said. "I don't think it was one of those situations where somebody was trying to steal identities." [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 366 incidents over 6 years.
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