JHU Identity Theft alert

[asterroc]

If you have ever been employed by Johns Hopkins University, or been a patient at the JHU Hospital, there is a chance that personally identifying info about you has been stolen. Nine backup tapes containing the info were "misplaced" en route to being further backed up, and their best guess is that a trash collector picked them up, but they're not sure. The tapes included employees' SS#, birth date, and direct deposit info (where applicable), and patients' demographics.

If you were a student who was not employed by JHU, including nerd campers, you do not have to worry.

More info from JHU here. They also have a page w/ links to the three credit reporting bureaus, where you can get your free yearly credit report, and you can also ask them to put a fraud alert on your account - this will make it harder for both illegitimate people AND yourself to do anything. I'm going to do it.

Comments

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

oh dear. that's not very good at all. credit freeze sounds like a good idea...might be a hassle but better than having your money stolen.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Yeap, that's my plan - I checked w/ T$ first since it may delay the process of our being approved to rent together this summer, but he agrees I should do the fraud alert.

He said thanks for the check, BTW.

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

no problem. sorry it took so long.