This letter is to notify you of a potential breach of personal data contained in your residency application through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). This incident does not affect your applications through ERAS to any of the residency programs to which you have applied. A summary of the incident is as follows: On January 13, 2010, an external hard drive containing a copy of your application information was lost...
Read: Your DOB, SSN, Maden Name + a lot more have been released to the wild. Imagine someone getting access to the information, holding off to it for 5 years and striking then with multiple credit applications, when creditors are happy to extend you as a practicing physician credits of $50+K...