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UCSF says laptop with 4, 400 patient records stolen, then recovered
From: kirniki <kirniki () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:19:33 -0500
http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/01/25/daily54.html UC San Francisco said Wednesday that a laptop containing files with information on 4,400 patients was stolen from a UCSF School of Medicine employee on or about November 30. The university said Jan. 27 that it is in the process of alerting affected patients that their health information “is vulnerable to access as a result of the incident.” Information “potentially exposed” included name, medical record number, age and clinical information, but the stolen laptop did not contain any Social Security numbers or other financial data, officials said. “Although there is no indication that unauthorized access to the files or the laptop actually took place,” UCSF said, both UCSF and another affected medical center began sending out notifications to patients this month. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Get business, compliance, IT and security staff on the same page with CREDANT Technologies: The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives. The eBook begins with considerations important to executives and business leaders. http://www.credant.com/campaigns/ebook-chpt-one-web.php
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