United Healthcare, the provider for UCI’s Graduate Student Health Insurance Program, admitted that it was the source of identity thefts of past and present UCI graduate and medical students on Wednesday, May 28.
Beginning in February, UC Irvine graduate students who attempted to submit income tax returns electronically were informed by the IRS that their had already been filed, provoking complaints to the UCI Police Department to solve the identity thefts. To date, all 155 reported victims were participants in UCI’s Graduate Student Health Insurance Program.
