[privacy] Johns Hopkins University Alerts 135, 000 Employees, Patients to Data Lo ss

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

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Via The Baltimore Sun.

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Backup computer tapes containing sensitive payroll and personal information
on thousands of Johns Hopkins University employees, and basic information
for even more hospital patients, have been missing for more than six weeks,
officials announced today, causing concerns over identity theft.

Officials stressed that there was no patient medical information on these
tapes.

Eight university tapes, routinely sent to a contractor who makes microfiche
archives of the data, held Social Security numbers, addresses and
direct-deposit bank account information for 52,567 former and current
employees. A separate tape from the hospital contained names, dates of
birth, sex, race and medical record numbers for 83,000 new hospital
patients first seen between July 4 and Dec. 18, 2006, or those who updated
their information during that period.

Hopkins officials said an "intensive investigation" by their staff as well
as that of the contractor, Anacomp Company Inc., suggests that the tapes
were likely misplaced by a courier, collected as trash and incinerated.

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More:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-hopkins0207,0,481
0943.story

- - ferg

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