Eric Eyre reports:
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is sending 11,000 letters to people who received flu shots from the agency since October, warning them that their personal information may have been stolen by a former department temporary worker.
Jameelah Jossiah, 24, a former flu clinic billing clerk, was charged with computer fraud after allegedly making a $400 purchase at the South Charleston Wal-Mart with a credit card obtained illegally under the name of a woman who received a flu shot from the Health Department last fall.
After searching Jossiah’s home, Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department detectives found a handwritten list of about 14 flu-shot recipients, including their names, social security numbers, addresses and other personal information, health Board President Brenda Isaac said Tuesday.
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