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Number of data breach victims grows

Utah now says nearly 900,000 are affected

By Josh Loftin

 |  Associated Press  

  April 10, 2012

An additional 750,000 people had their personal information stolen by hackers, state health officials said Monday after discovering that the thieves downloaded thousands more files of data than authorities initially believed. Officials originally estimated that about 24,000 people had their records stolen after a computer tracked to Eastern Europe infiltrated a server beginning March 30, then changed that number to 182,000 victims.

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