Yet Another Hospital Hit by Data Theft of Privacy Data
Dean Wong writes in The Ballard (Washington) News Tribune:
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.More here.
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.
(Props, Flying Hamster.)
posted by Fergie @ 10/31/2006 10:54:00 PM
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