Posted on 04/21/2014 7:21:49 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
PITTSBURGH —As many as 27,000 UPMC employees may have had their personal information exposed in a data breach and nearly 800 have been victimized by tax fraud, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit confirmed Thursday evening.
"We want to assure our patients that no patient information was breached," media relations director Gloria Kreps said in a statement.
Employees of the several Pittsburgh-area hospitals told Pittsburgh's Action News 4 that they received a packet in the mail, telling them that their information was stolen and what they need to do to protect themselves.
"We're telling our employees that they should take steps to watch their credit," said John Houston, UPMC's vice president of privacy and information security. "We are going to give all of our employees the opportunity to sign up for credit monitoring service. We're underwriting the cost of that for one year, but we're telling them if they think they are victims of actual fraud, they should file a police report, contact the IRS."
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gave us a year of LifeLock. I think they should give us 5 years but at least they are making a effort to get in front of this.
People who steal info like this should be hung by their nipples with fishhooks.
I heard that some people’s bank accounts were wiped out. Nearly 800 had their tax refunds hijacked.
I agree the company should do more than a year of credit monitoring. Hopefully you’re ok.
am good here, thanks. But its distressing to think that a persons life can be accessed and ruining by some asshat.
I hate to do stuff online. Security isn’t there and the bad guys always seem to be a step ahead.
The federal government are the one’s that set up this bs whereby we are all so easily victimized. Seems to me they should set us all up with LifeLock.
I even consider LifeLock to be a security risk. I would turn that offer down.
Why do society automatically assume ‘the fox’ is safer than ‘the hens’ in the henhouse?
If the federal govt stood by its 50 year old promise that SSN is not to be used for ID purposes and only for tax purposes, most of this would be mute. Feds should have prosecuted business that tried to use SSN for non-tax purposes. There is no reason for credit card companies, cell phone companies, medical providers to have our SSN in the first place.
But UPMC told us a few months ago that they didn’t have employees.
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