[Dataloss] (update) UT: U. stolen record estimate is lowered

lyger lyger at attrition.org
Thu Jun 26 12:03:33 UTC 2008


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.

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