CA: Laptop stolen contained information of 1, 000 Santa Cruz patients (fwd)

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

Updated link:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12042002

(previous one was pulled from RSS reader, oops)


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From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
To: dataloss () datalossdb org
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:26:24 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: CA: Laptop stolen contained information of 1,000 Santa Cruz patients


http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12042002?nclick_check=1

A laptop computer recently stolen at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Santa 
Cruz office contained personal and medical information of 1,000 Santa Cruz 
County patients.

As a result, officials at the Medical Foundation's sent out notices March 23 
alerting the patients of the theft that happened about a month ago, said 
foundation spokesman Mark Riley.

The laptop computer was attached to a neurological piece of equipment when 
thieves broke into the foundation's office and stole it, Riley said. At the 
time, the office was closed.

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