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Nurse's laptop stolen in SE Conn.
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:30:51 -0600
From theday http://www.theday.com/article/20101112/NWS01/311129846/1044 VNA patients are warned of possible security breach after computer theft By Judy Benson Published 11/12/2010 12:00 Waterford - About 12,000 current and former patients of the Visiting Nurse Association of Southeastern Connecticut will be receiving letters notifying them of a possible security breach of agency data. Mary Lenzini, VNA president, said Thursday that the letters are being sent after a laptop computer used by one of the visiting nurses was stolen from her car. The laptop, stolen on Sept. 30, had been in the nurse's locked car that was parked in the driveway of her Waterford home, Lenzini said. The theft was reported to police. The laptop has not been recovered. Nurses use the laptops to record all patient information, including names, addresses, diagnoses and types of care provided. All the information is encrypted, and access to the data is password protected, Lenzini said. Thus far there has been no indication that any patient data has been illegally accessed, she said. ... _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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