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Health
Care Worker Steals Social Security Number
Akron Beacon Journal - March 28, 2002
Akron woman's insurer linked to identity theft
Think that your information is safe with your health insurance company?
Think again. In this story, a woman has her Social Security number
stolen by someone at her health care company. She now is a victim
of idenity theft and she was just about to buy a new home.
This spotlights
the problem of using a Social Security number as an ID number. It
was never designed to function as an ID, but that's the way a lot
of companies in the health industy are using it.
 
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