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(update) UT: U. stolen record estimate is lowered
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:03:33 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9697249 A theft of billing records affected fewer University Hospital patients than originally thought, a spokesman said Wednesday, but a notification letter won't reach some whose personal information was stolen. The letter will go out to about 1.5 million patients whose billing records, some with Social Security numbers, were stolen from a storage company employee's personal vehicle on June 3. Original estimates had put the number of people affected at 2.2 million. Hospital officials lowered the estimate by eliminating dead patients and duplicate entries, University Hospital spokesman Christopher Nelson said. But an unknown number of the names were eliminated because there is no valid address for the records, some of which go back 16 years. [...] _______________________________________________ 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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