MA: Personal information of hundreds of seniors lost or stolen

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1076819&srvc=rss

Personal information of nearly 500 seniors who received flu shots in 
Wellesley has been lost or stolen.

The information was in an envelope that had been mailed earlier this month 
by the town's health department to a Medicare office in Boston. But 
officials say when the envelope arrived, it was open and the contents were 
missing.

[.]

The material included social security numbers, addresses and dates of 
birth for about 480 Wellesley seniors who had received flu shots from the 
town last fall.

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