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UWMC patient financial information compromised

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Dissent

More on a breach reported here last week, this from Natalie Johnson:

In early February, an employee of the National Collection Office (NCO) Financial Systems Inc., a debt-collection agency that UW Medicine contracts with, violated security and compromised at least 50 confirmed contacts, and as many as 80 more are being investigated.

“UW Medicine was informed by law enforcement in early February that records containing Social Security numbers and credit-card information for a number of UW Medicine patients were found on a person who was arrested for an unrelated crime,” Tina Mankowski, director of the Health Sciences Center, wrote in an e-mail.

Mankowski stressed that no medical records were involved but that patients whose personal information was compromised could be victims of identity theft.

The King County Sheriff’s Office originally discovered the stolen financial information during a routine arrest, said Jim Laing, King County Sheriff’s spokesperson. King 5 reported the parole-violation-related arrest of a man whose girlfriend works at NCO. She was later arrested as well.

Read more in The Daily of the University of Washington.

Category: Health Data

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1 thought on “UWMC patient financial information compromised”

  1. Anonymous says:
    March 2, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    I have seen so many of these idnetity thefts from medical services where patients personal data has been stolen. There should be a law that makes the secure storage of personal data mandatory. records that contain Social Security Numbers and credit card details should be kept in a safe with very strict access protocols. It is time for companies to treat these records with the seriousness that they merit; after all, they don’t leave cold hard cash lying around!
    William

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