[Dataloss] UT: Possibly Thousands Of Patient's Information Compromised With Lap Top Theft

lyger lyger at attrition.org
Fri Mar 14 11:52:40 UTC 2008


http://www.kutv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=5843cde8-1fb5-4945-b396-df5b682ddbb4

Possibly 4,800 patient's information could be compromised, when a laptop 
with names, social security numbers and personal health information was 
stolen from University Healthcare over two weeks ago.

The theft happened back on February 25th. The hospital says that someone 
broke into a locked office and took a lap top and a flash drive. The 
hospital does not believe that whoever stole the laptop was searching for 
the patient's information.

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