So my better half gets a letter in the mail from UT Southwestern Medical Center. It says that her personal information may have been stolen from there by somebody who used to work in the hospital’s patient financial services department. This person supposedly accessed “personal identifying information of patients who had made payments,” then gave the info to someone who intended to use it to apply for credit cards, loans and bank accounts. UT Southwestern cops are investigating.
The hospital doesn’t know exactly how many patients were affected by the scheme. So it’s notifying a bunch of people and urging them all to place a “fraud alert” on their credit files. It’s even arranged with one of the fraud-reporting companies to offer identity-theft protection to the potential victims “at no cost for one year.” And, here’s a nice P.S.: the letter containing all this bad news arrived in an envelope that was open, looking like it had never been sealed.
