Walter Reed, other military hospitals experience security breach
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, June 9, 2008
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Approximately 1,000 patients of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center may be victims of a security breach, according to a June 2 Associated Press (AP) article. The
Army officials have not released details of the breach have not been released. However, the army has said that a computer file containing the patient information was located on a “non-government, non-secure computer network," according to the AP.
Patient names, Social Security numbers, and birthdates were compromised, but medical records were not. The
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