Re: (update) UT: U. patient records recovered

["Michael Hill, CITRMS" <mhill () idtexperts com>]

You have to love this case.

>    Winder said the courier will not face charges and is instead considered 
> a victim in the case.

How is the courier a victim when their employee violated company policy and 
probably some state and/or federal laws as well?

>    One lawsuit filed by Christensen & Jensen against Perpetual Storage and 
> the U. demands the university extend credit monitoring for at least five 
> years; offer five years worth of fraud protection that would alert 
> patients before new lines of credit are opened; and provide victims money 
> and legal counsel to restore their credit and identities and money to 
> reimburse them for money lost due to identity theft.

Are there any identity theft protection plans that include access to legal 
counsel?

>    Before this afternoon's news conference, attorney Scot Boyd, who is 
> representing 11 plaintiffs and potentially "hundreds" more in that 
> lawsuit, couldn't say whether the recovery of the tapes would nullify the 
> lawsuit. But in court filings, he wrote that it wouldn't, noting the 
> thieves could copy the information and return the original tapes.

Can you detect whether a tape has been copied?  Can any techies out there 
answer that?

>    In a separate lawsuit against Perpetual, patient Thelma Keachie demands 
> $8 million to monitor and repair credit reports for at least five years 
> and track the use of other private information for a lifetime.

Now that's a solution.


Mike


Michael Hill
Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist
www.idtheft101.net
404-216-3751


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