[privacy] Cancer Patients Face Risk of ID Theft, Emory Warns

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

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Via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Officials at Emory University said Tuesday they have sent letters to more
than 38,000 patients who have been treated for cancer at Emory Hospital,
Emory Crawford Long Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital, warning them that
a computer containing their personal information had been stolen from a
business contractor in Cincinnati.

The patients were advised to put a fraud alert on their credit reports
because of the identity theft.

The patient records included names, addresses, medical data, treatment
information and Social Security numbers, Emory said in a statement. The
information was in a computer stolen from an office of Electronic Registry
Systems, one of Emory Healthcare's business contractors.

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More:
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/01/02/0103meshemory.html

- - ferg

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