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Cancer Center Blamed for Stolen Laptop
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:44:08 -0400
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/01/37838.htm ST. LOUIS (CN) - A hospital and cancer center allowed a laptop computer stuffed with unencrypted, confidential information on its patients to be stolen, and did not notify patients of the data theft for 8 weeks, patients say in a class action. Named plaintiff Rita Barricks claims the laptop was stolen during the weekend of Dec. 4, 2010 from Barnes-Jewish Hospital dba The Siteman Cancer Center, a joint venture between Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Barricks says the computer contained patients' names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, Social Security numbers, medical records, diagnoses, lab results, email addresses, insurance information and employment information. ... _______________________________________________ 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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