Federal stats: Identity theft of medical records on rise
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Identity theft of health records has become big business and a growing problem.
Reports of health-record identity thefts jumped 61.5 percent last year, federal statistics show.
Nationwide, 64,150 data breaches have occurred since October 2009, including 24,429 in 2012 alone, according to the Office for Civil Rights, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Of the...
