US Elliot Hospital Mar 2014 Physical Action (Q16471)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | US Elliot Hospital Mar 2014 Physical Action |
A data breach risk event |
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March 2014
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Hospital officials said the PCs were stolen from an employees car in March. The employee was transporting the PCs to a location where they could be destroyed. Hospital officials believe the information on the hard drives would not be useful to identity thieves. However, the hospital is notifying patients affected by the theft. The hospital takes a data snapshot of every PC before junking it. It was able to look back and see what was on the hard drives. And we saw that there was a small handful of archive of documents that had been archived on the PCs local drive containing fairly limited information relating to 1,213 patients, said John Friberg, senior vice president of Elliot Hospital. The computers had auto-archived three spreadsheets and 20 emails. The documents included very basic inf (English)
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