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Computer drive with patient info missing from HI hospital
Healthcare Security Weekly, October 31, 2005
Kauai, HI, police are searching for a missing computer hard drive that disappeared from Wilcox Memorial Hospital in Honolulu, reports the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
The drive contains Social Security numbers and medical numbers of 130,000 patients treated at the hospital over the previous 12 years.
The hospital contacted patients who have information on the drive 10 days after staff noticed the drive was missing. Officials asked patients to report any problems or unusual transactions by e-mail.
The hospital also posted information on its Web site about what people can do to protect themselves from identity fraud.
No personal medical information was on the drive, but the hospital is doing everything it can to locate the 2.5-in. long thumb drive.
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