Computers with patient data stolen from Nagasaki hospital

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http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20060924TDY02007.htm

Six notebook computers with data on about 9,000 patients have been 
stolen from Nagasaki University Hospital of Medicine and Dentistry in 
Nagasaki, a university official said.  The data contained names, 
gender, dates of birth, and diagnoses of people who visited the 
hospital's hematology division since the early 1990s, the official said.

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The computers also contained data on another 3,000 patients' 
symptoms, though their names had been encoded. The data, based on 
patients' medical files, had been stored there for educational and 
academic purposes, and some of them contained detailed descriptions 
on the patient's medical histories, the official said.

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