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Mount Sinai Hospital reports two stolen laptops contained Social Security Numbers and diagnoses
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:35:24 -0400
http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=7452 Mount Sinai Multispecialty Physicians Practice announced today that two laptop computers which may contain confidential patient information are missing from its offices in Long Island City, Queens. An investigation has been launched, and there is no reason at this time to believe that any data on the missing laptops have been accessed or used improperly. Information about as many as 720 patients may be contained on the missing laptops, including protected health information such as name, social security number and diagnosis. One laptop was password protected, but a person with sophisticated computer abilities might be able to bypass the password protection. ... _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () 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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