UTMB warns 1,200 of identity theft threat
The University of Texas Medical Branch has mailed letters notifying 1,200 patients that sensitive information about them had been available to a woman charged with identity theft in an unrelated case.
Officials sent out the letters this week after MedAssets, which the medical branch hired to assist with billing from third-party payers, warned of a security breach by one of its employees.
On Dec. 15, law enforcement officials notified MedAssets that a former employee had been arrested and charged with identity theft. The person also was alleged to have used a stolen identity to misrepresent herself and gain employment at Georgia-based MedAssets and had been involved in other instances of identity theft. None of the charges, however, are related to information she obtained during her employment with MedAssets, medical branch officials say.
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