Vassar Brothers MC Sends Follow Up Letters

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Vassar Brothers Medical Center has sent out a follow up letter to help patients whose personal data was on a laptop computer stolen from the hospital in late June.

The letter, dated Aug. 16, says the hospital understands the difficulty patients have had in contacting the credit bureaus to place fraud alerts on their credit reports. “In an effort to ease this process for those who encountered difficulties contacting the credit bureaus, we have prepared a form in conjunction with Trans Union that can be filled out and sent back to Trans Union via U.S. mail,” the letter says.

Source: Poughkeepsie Journal Thanks to Larry for the story!

Written by MCruz on August 19th, 2006 with 2 comments.
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Chevron Employees’ Data Lost with Stolen Laptop

An unidentified accounting firm had lost a laptop which contained unencrypted sensitive data belonging to US payroll employees of Chevron. The company is being tight-lipped on the details of the incident.

The San Ramon oil giant sent an e-mail to U.S. workers Monday warning that a laptop computer “was stolen from an employee of an independent public accounting firm who was auditing our employee savings, health and disability plans.”
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Kent Robertson, a spokesman for the company, declined to provide details about where the laptop theft occurred or the number of Chevron employees affected by the security breach.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Written by MCruz on August 19th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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