[Dataloss] LabCorp - Patient info on stolen computer

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Home News Tribune Online 08/31/06
By KEN TARBOUS

A medical lab is notifying patients that a computer with sensitive 
personal information was stolen from its Prospect Plains Road 
sample-collection center.

LabCorp is identifying patients who may have had their names and Social 
Security numbers on a computer stolen from its Monroe Patient Service 
Center and notifying those people by mail, said Pamela Sherry, LabCorp's 
senior vice president of corporate communications.

"We have no reason to believe the information is being used improperly," 
Sherry said.

The information, which was scrambled and password protected, did not 
include birth dates or test results, Sherry said.

Sherry did not say how many patients had their personal information placed 
on the computer or how many people were receiving letters about the theft.

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