Stolen laptop recovered
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, August 28, 2006
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Michigan-based Beaumont Hospitals has recovered a laptop taken during the theft of a home healthcare nurse's automobile, the organization announced.
The computer contained information for home care patients served over the past three years, including names, addresses, birth dates, insurance information, and Social Security numbers. Although the information was encrypted, the nurse's access code and password were with the computer.
Although a forensic computer expert hired by the organization determined that patient information had not been accessed, Beaumont will continue to offer one year of free credit reporting to affected patients.
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