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[update] St. Mary's Hospital
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:19:27 -0500
Updates the number of individuals affected and type of info compromised.... http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.identity13feb13,0,5907611.story?coll=bal-local-headlines A second Maryland hospital has reported losing sensitive computerized data on tens of thousands of patients, raising another alarm about how consumer information is protected. Up to 130,000 former and current patients at St. Mary's Hospital in Leonardtown have recently been notified that a laptop with personal information was stolen from the hospital in December. Just last week, Johns Hopkins officials reported the loss of thousands of employee and patient records. Last seen Dec. 5 in St. Mary's emergency care center, the computer included the names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of patients who had been treated as long ago as 1989, said Christine Wray, the hospital's president and chief executive officer. The data did not include anyone's medical or financial information, but it also was not encrypted, so anyone can read it, she said. The laptop, used to register patients as they came in for treatment, was taken from a treatment area that the public could generally access without a security check. The hospital has contracted with National ID Recovery of Norcoss, Ga., a firm that specializes in identity theft cases, to help patients keep track of their personal information such as credit card usage patterns, she said. The service will be free to patients, and the hospital is paying the firm up to $425,000, she said. [...] St. Mary's Hospital was under no legal obligation to disclose the laptop theft, because no medical records were stolen, Wray said. But she and others on the hospital's staff felt it was necessary to give those potentially affected the chance to begin tracking their credit records and other personal information. [...] -- Main site: http://www.pogowasright.org Main RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss Breaches RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/breaches.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 148 million compromised records in 573 incidents over 7 years.
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