Friday, January 27. 2006
IN HIS FREAKIN' CAR!!!!
It just boggles the mind that people can be so careless....
They say the data is encrypted and in proprietary formats. I really hope so.
About 365,000 hospice and home health care patients in Oregon and Washington are being notified about the theft of computer backup data disks and tapes late last month that included personal information and confidential medical records.
In an announcement yesterday, Providence Home Services, a division of Seattle-based Providence Health Systems, said the records and other data were on several disks and tapes stolen from the car of a Providence employee at his home.
They say the data is encrypted and in proprietary formats. I really hope so.
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