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CA: Stolen laptop holds private information
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:10:13 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.record-bee.com/local/ci_7687954 Sutter Lakeside Hospital (SLH) reported Monday that a laptop computer containing personal and medical information of approximately 45,000 former patients, employees and physicians has been stolen from the residence of a contractor. It has not been recovered. The information, dating from 2005 and earlier, was to be transferred from one secure system to another as part of an equipment upgrade, but the contractor went against hospital policy by downloading the information onto the laptop's hard drive. The hospital, upon learning of the misuse of the laptop, discontinued a business relationship with the contractor, who was not an employee of SLH, but was hired for a special project in the IT department, according to Marketing and Communications Manager Mitch Proaps. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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