Laptops with patient information of thousands of Albertans stolen from U of A Hospital

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http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Health/Laptops+with+patient+info+stolen+from+hospital/1728255/story.html

EDMONTON - Two laptops containing the private information of 250,000
Alberta patients were stolen from a research lab the University of
Alberta Hospital earlier this month.

Alberta Health Services says the missing laptops were chained to desks
in the locked Provincial Lab Information Technology room when they
were stolen on June 4. The hard drives of the laptops contained a
random sample of 250,000 lab reports for communicable and reportable
diseases. While not complete health records, the sample data contained
personal identifiable information such as patients’ names and personal
health numbers.

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