[privacy] Laptop Stolen With 22,000 Kaiser Patients' Data

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via CBS5.com.

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In yet another instance of laptop theft potentially endangering personal
data, Kaiser Permanente is in the process of notifying as many as 22,000
patients of a possible breach of their private medical information.

The personal information was located on a doctor's laptop computer stolen
from the Medical Center in Oakland at the end of last November.

There were no details provided about where or how the laptop was taken, but
a Kaiser spokesman said it was likely a random and isolated crime of
opportunity.

Kaiser said the majority of patients had only limited information listed on
the laptop, but 500 of them included social security numbers.

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More:
http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_045212622.html

- - ferg

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