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Almost 50,000 patients of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital have had their identities stolen thanks […]

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We’ve all heard of financial identity theft where someone gets a credit card or a loan in a victim’s name.   There is another type which is potentially even worse:  medical identity theft.   While financial identity theft can hurt your wallet, medical identity theft could kill you.
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Medical ID Theft is when someone uses […]

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