[privacy] Yet Another Hospital Hit by Data Theft of Privacy Data

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Ballard (Washington) News Tribune.

[snip]

Over a thousand recent patients at Swedish Medical Center's Ballard
Campus are being advised to check their credit reports after the
personal information of three people was stolen from the hospital.

According to Swedish Medical Center, the three patients may have been
the victims of identity theft by a former employee who stole their
names, birth dates and Social Security numbers from hospital files.

As a precaution, Swedish has told 1,100 in-patients or day-surgery
patients who visited the hospital between June 22, 2006 and Sept. 21,
2006, to watch for any unusual or unauthorized credit activity in their
names.

[snip]

More:
http://www.ballardnewstribune.com/articles/2006/10/31/news/local_news/news03.txt

(Props, Flying Hamster.)

- ferg


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