Data Breach Alert: Utah hospital loses thousands of patient records

Posted by Joe on March 14th, 2008

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A laptop and flash drive with approximately 4,800 personal records, including name, social security number and health information, were stolen from University Healthcare Hospital in Utah in late February.  Impacted patients began receiving notification letters this week.

Hospital officials said that the data was password protected and that it is unlikely that the criminals would be able to access any personal information.   The hospital is revising their security policies to help prevent future data breaches.  Employees will no longer be able to download patient personal data on to laptop computers.

The hospital will be providing credit report monitoring services to those consumers impacted by the data breach.

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