Red Cross Warns Blood Donors of Possible ID Thefts in Midwest
Todd Weiss writes on ComputerWorld:
About 1 million blood donors in the Missouri-Illinois Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross were warned last week that personal information about them could have been stolen earlier this year by a former employee and might have been used in identity thefts.More here.
The former worker had access to 8,000 blood donors in a database she used in her job, all of whom were notified by mail of possible identity theft problems on March 17, according to the agency. But after the original warning letters went out, the Red Cross decided to expand the identity theft warnings to all 1 million donors in the Missouri-Illinois region because of concerns that she may have accidentally accessed other records in the larger group.
The warnings to the 1 million donors are being made through the media and the agency's Web site, not through individual letters.
posted by Fergie @ 5/25/2006 03:28:00 PM
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