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Subject:    [Dshield] Red Cross Warns Blood Donors of Possible ID Thefts in
From:       "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero ! net>
Date:       2006-05-26 0:14:09
Message-ID: 20060525.171457.2671.18300 () webmail11 ! lax ! untd ! com
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Via ComputerWorld.

[snip]

About 1 million blood donors in the Missouri-Illinois Blood Services Region of the \
American Red Cross were warned last week that personal information about them could \
have been stolen earlier this year by a former employee and might have been used in \
identity thefts.

The former worker had access to 8,000 blood donors in a database she used in her job, \
all of whom were notified by mail of possible identity theft problems on March 17, \
according to the agency. But after the original warning letters went out, the Red \
Cross decided to expand the identity theft warnings to all 1 million donors in the \
Missouri-Illinois region because of concerns that she may have accidentally accessed \
other records in the larger group.

The warnings to the 1 million donors are being made through the media and the \
agency's Web site, not through individual letters.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9000754


- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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