Laptop stolen from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
The patients whose unencrypted records were on the password-protected laptop were notified July 30 of the theft in a letter from the hospital's president, who offered identity-theft monitoring and protection.
PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia Inquirer) August 2, 2010 -- A laptop computer with health and personal information on 21,000 patients was stolen from an office at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania June 30.
The patients whose unencrypted records were on the password-protected laptop were notified July 30 of the theft in a letter from the hospital's president, who offered identity-theft monitoring and protection.
He said the hospital would do all it could to protect the patients whose information, including Social Security numbers, had been exposed and take steps to prevent similar incidents in the future.
The breach at Jefferson is part of a national problem, experts say. A federal database has documented 121 such lapses nationwide since September 2009, showing that medical or financial information had been exposed for more than 5 million people.
Link: http://www.securityinfowatch.com/node/1317053
Source: DHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report
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