Shands notifies 12,500 patients that data at risk

2010-03-04 06:19

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100302/ARTICLES/3021003/1002 By Nathan Crabbe Staff writer Gainesville.com March 2, 2010 Shands HealthCare has notified about 12,500 patients that a laptop containing their medical information was stolen in January. The unencrypted laptop contained information about patients referred over the past three years to the Shands at the University of Florida gastroenterology clinical services department. The information includes names, addresses, medical record numbers and medical procedure codes of the patients, as well as the Social Security numbers of about 650 people. There is no evidence that any of the information has been used for fraudulent purposes, according to Shands. A Shands employee who deals with the gastroenterology clinic's patient referral database downloaded the information under the belief that the laptop was encrypted, said Shands spokeswoman Kim Rose. The hospital-owned laptop was reported stolen Jan. 27 as part of a burglary of the employee's northwest Gainesville home. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/

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