Tapes with data about Hopkins' workers, patients, missing

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.wmdt.com/wires/displaystory.asp?id=58386284

The Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Hospital are reporting 
the disappearance of nine computer tapes containing personal information 
about university employees and hospital patients.

Officials learned January 18th that eight tapes had not been returned as 
expected by a contractor that makes backups of the data. The tapes 
contained payroll information on 52-thousand past and present university 
employees from all units except the Applied Physics Lab. The data included 
Social Security numbers and, in some cases, bank account numbers.

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