Medical records sold to teacher as scrap paper

UPS originally lost in the shuffle....security breach of the week...love this story...the old "freight salvage sales"...spent many years in this freight business and they can be a good thing, but hey look at what gets put on the auction block before you start taking bids.....even though some of the people on the medical list records were dead, this leaves an open opportunity for someone to assume their identity....and the transportation company should have scrutinized the items before assuming it was just your run of the day "printed matter"...BD

SALT LAKE CITY - The medical records of 28 Central Florida Regional Hospital patients were sold last month at a Salt Lake City surplus store for about $20, a newspaper reported.
The records were sold to a local school teacher looking for scrap paper for her fourth-grade class, The Deseret Morning News of Salt Lake City reported Monday. The mixup is being blamed on a shipping problem. The records contained detailed medical histories, phone numbers, addresses, Social Security numbers and insurance information. Several of the patients whose information was lost are dead.
Shipping companies often sell off packages that cannot be delivered. A UPS spokesman said his company keeps packages for at least three months before liquidating them. The package containing the records was eventually sold as scrap paper at National Product Sales.