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Cancer Patients Face Risk of ID Theft, Emory Warns

Bill Hendrick writes in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

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.

posted by Fergie @ 1/02/2007 04:14:00 PM