UCSF says laptop with 4, 400 patient records stolen, then recovered

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http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/01/25/daily54.html

UC San Francisco said Wednesday that a laptop containing files with
information on 4,400 patients was stolen from a UCSF School of
Medicine employee on or about November 30.

The university said Jan. 27 that it is in the process of alerting
affected patients that their health information “is vulnerable to
access as a result of the incident.”

Information “potentially exposed” included name, medical record
number, age and clinical information, but the stolen laptop did not
contain any Social Security numbers or other financial data, officials
said.

“Although there is no indication that unauthorized access to the files
or the laptop actually took place,” UCSF said, both UCSF and another
affected medical center began sending out notifications to patients
this month.

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