Employee accesses 10,000 hospital records

There's never a dull moment in the IT world--or even a completely safe moment. The latest security incident comes from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where it is warning more than 10,000 patients that they may have been victims of identity theft. The hospital linked a woman working in the patient registration area to fraud.

The Secret Service and U.S. Postal Service have identified 46 victims of the scam, including 31 people connected to the hospital, according to PC World. Most of the 10,000 patients and former patients were notified that there was an "extremely low risk" of fraud, according to hospital spokesman Gary Stephenson. "We just contacted them to do due diligence," he told PC World.

Nevertheless, there is plenty to worry about. The thief had access to Social Security numbers, names, addresses, birth dates and insurance information of some patients. The hospital has since fired the employee and she will likely be indicted. This incident demonstrates that you can never be too cautious about your database or too certain about your employees.

For more on this ID theft:
- check out this PCWorld.com article [1]

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