MI: Personal information stolen from Detroit's health department

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.detnews.com/article/20091215/METRO/912150407/1409/METRO

Police are investigating two incidents in which patients' medical records 
-- including social security numbers -- were stolen from the city's health 
department.

The first theft occurred in late October when a flash drive was stolen 
from a health department employee's car. It contained files with birth 
certificate information for babies born in 2008 and the first half of 2009 
whose parents reside in the 48202 and 48205 zip codes. Also a part of the 
files were information on the mothers' names and health conditions, the 
fathers' names, addresses, Medicaid numbers and social security numbers.

The second incident happened over the Thanksgiving break when five 
computers were stolen from the immunization program at the department's 
Herman Kiefer Health Complex. One of the computers contained Medicare and 
Medicaid seasonal flu billing information for 2008.

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