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   Related Terms: UCSD, Social Security

Computers breached at cancer center

   By Angelica Martinez
   Union-Tribune Staff Writer

   2:00 a.m. July 16, 2009

   SAN DIEGO — A letter has been sent to 30,000 patients of UCSD's Moores
   Cancer Center after a hacker breached the center's computers and gained
   access to patients' personal information.

   The letter, dated July 9, was sent as a precaution to inform patients that
   the computers were compromised on June 26, said DeAnn Marshall, UCSD Health
   Sciences chief of marketing and communications officer.

   The computer servers affected contained information such as patients' names,
   dates of birth, medical record number, diagnosis and treatment dates back to
   2004, Marshall said. The vast majority of patients' information did not
   include Social Security numbers, she said.

   She said there is no evidence that any of the information has actually been
   viewed or used. Patients' medical records, which are stored in separate
   servers, were not breached.

   A hotline has been set up for patients if they have any questions, at (888)
   370-0788.

   Marshall said authorities have been notified, and an investigation is under
   way.

   Angelica Martinez: (619) 293-1317; angelica.martinez@uniontrib.com

   Angelica Martinez: (619) 293-1317; 

   Related Terms: UCSD, Social Security

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