Wednesday, 1. January 2003
Topic: - on January 1, 2003 at 1:49:08 PM CET
As Pentagon Computerizes Medical Records, Contractor Suffers Theft
The Defense Department is computerizing the medical records of all military personnel and their families, but just as the project gets past the experimental phase officials are grappling with the theft of thousands of records from a Pentagon health care contractor.
The theft earlier this month of computer hard drives containing more than 500,000 records with Social Security numbers, medical claims histories and other private information from an Arizona company could become one of the largest identity thefts on record if the information is misused, the Federal Trade Commission said.
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