[Dataloss] Stolen laptop returned to Beaumont Hospital

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(follow-up to previous post)

Courtesy Audit (attrition.org)

http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060823/NEWS99/60823026

August 23, 2006
By Kim Norris

A stolen laptop filled with medical and personal information of more than 
28,000 patients of Beaumont Hospital Home Care was returned Wednesday, 
without any of the patients. information accessed, Beaumont Hospital 
officials said.

Several unnamed employees have since been disciplined, officials said.

The laptop computer was inside a car belonging to a home care nurse care 
when the car was stolen Aug. 5 on Agnes Street in Detroit. It was 
recovered Wednesday after hospital security officials received more about 
50 tips from area residents responding to a hotline number disseminated by 
local media.

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