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Identity breach affects hospital
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:18:47 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_8710866 By Airan Scruby Staff Writer Whitter Daily News 03/26/2008 WHITTIER - About 5,000 past and current employees at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital had their private information stolen, officials said Wednesday. The data included Social Security numbers, birth dates, full names and other records stored on a desktop computer that was stolen from a Fullerton data management group on Feb. 11. In addition to the 5,000 employees, another 35,000 identities from 18 other companies were stored on the computer, officials said. According to hospital Human Resources Vice President Lon Orey, the employees will be given a one-year subscription to LifeLock, a group which tracks the user's information and guards it from illegal use. "We take the treatment of employee information very seriously," Orey said, "and we will continue to do everything we can to protect them." A letter informing employees that their information was in jeopardy was dated March13, more than a month after the breach. [..] _______________________________________________ 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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