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Nearly half of identity thefts in U.S. are medical info

If modern technology has ushered in a plague of identity theft, one particular strain of the disease has emerged as most virulent: medical identity theft.

Last month, the Identity Theft Resource Center produced a survey showing that medical-related identity theft accounted for 43% of all identity thefts reported in the United States in 2013. That is a far greater chunk than identity thefts involving banking and finance, the government and the military, or education. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that since it started keeping records in 2009, the medical records of between 27.8 million and 67.7 million people have been breached.

Michael Ollove

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/07/stateline-identity-thefts-medical-information/5279351/

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