[Dataloss] CA: Stolen laptop holds private information

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http://www.record-bee.com/local/ci_7687954

Sutter Lakeside Hospital (SLH) reported Monday that a laptop computer 
containing personal and medical information of approximately 45,000 former 
patients, employees and physicians has been stolen from the residence of a 
contractor. It has not been recovered.

The information, dating from 2005 and earlier, was to be transferred from 
one secure system to another as part of an equipment upgrade, but the 
contractor went against hospital policy by downloading the information 
onto the laptop's hard drive.

The hospital, upon learning of the misuse of the laptop, discontinued a 
business relationship with the contractor, who was not an employee of SLH, 
but was hired for a special project in the IT department, according to 
Marketing and Communications Manager Mitch Proaps.

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