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InternetNews August 5, 2010	Another Laptop Theft Exposes 21K Patients' Data Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is in the process of notifying more than 21,000 patients that a stolen laptop has exposed some of their most sensitive personal information.
InternetNews January 9, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Hospitals Becoming Popular ID Theft Target 'Cancer patients are big money' for ID thieves, privacy expert warns.
InternetNews January 19, 2010	Lincoln Financial Breach Puts 1.2M Users at Risk The financial services company admitted last week that the sharing of usernames and passwords among employees created a security breach that compromised more than 1.2 million customers' personal data.
InternetNews December 4, 2009	Laptop Thief Nabs Hospital Patient Data It's the latest incident in which a lost or missing laptop leads to criminals gaining access to sensitive data.
InternetNews January 9, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Retiree Data Lost in Laptop Theft Laptops are stolen from Manhattan-based Towers Perrin offices. Retirees are being urged to monitor credit records.
InternetNews February 2, 2010	UCSF Patients Latest Data Breach Victims A laptop containing the personal information of more than 4,300 patients receiving care at the University of California, San Francisco medical school was stolen in November.
InternetNews May 7, 2007 Roy Mark	TSA Admits 100,000 Employee Records Missing The Transportation Security Administration is missing a hard drive containing some 100,000 current and former employee payroll records.
InternetNews June 14, 2010	Lax Data Security Results in Heavy Fines Five California hospitals got an expensive reminder of just how serious the state is about protecting patients' sensitive data. Expect more of the same in the near future.
InternetNews May 17, 2010	Data Breach Tags N.M. Medicaid Patients Nearly 10,000 participants in New Mexico's Medicaid program had their personal information compromised after a car with a laptop in the trunk was stolen in Chicago.
InternetNews August 26, 2010	Applicants Alerted to UConn Data Breach More than 10,000 people who applied to the University of Connecticut between 2004 and 2010 are learning that a stolen laptop has exposed their contact information and Social Security numbers.
InternetNews September 13, 2010	CCNY Student Data Exposed in Laptop Heist Some 7,000-plus students attending the City College of New York are learning that some of their most sensitive personal information was exposed when a school laptop was stolen last month.
InternetNews May 21, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Lost Hard Drive Contains Clinton White House Data Archives' data loss compromised an undetermined number of Social Security numbers of White House staff and visitors.
InternetNews July 12, 2006 Roy Mark	Report Reveals VA Breach Specifics A new VA report claims the agency displayed lack of urgency in reporting data theft.
Managed Care November 2006 Ed Silverman	Loss of Protected Patient Information Real Danger for Health Care Plans There are plenty of ways that confidential data can escape managed care organizations, and the consequences can be major. Can you trust your employees?
InternetNews November 11, 2010	Data Breaches Cost Hospitals $6B A Year: Study Ponemon Institute report finds that healthcare organizations suffer an average of 2.4 data breaches a year, costing in excess of $2 million per incident.
InternetNews October 26, 2009	Stolen Laptop Exposes 33,000 Patients' Data Laptop plucked from employee's car at Daytona Beach, Fla. medical center exposes potentially exposed thousands of patient IDs.
Managed Care September 2002	New Privacy Regulations Almost Certain To Be Tested The Bush administration is moving to loosen health-privacy protections by requiring that providers tell patients about their privacy rights and make only a "good-faith effort" to get a written acknowledgement of that notice.
InternetNews June 3, 2010	UofL Web Site Exposes Patients' Personal Info A doctor at the University of Louisville Hospital set up an internal Web site and data base to track and monitor kidney dialysis patients. The problem is the site wasn't password protected.
InternetNews April 8, 2010	Unencrypted Patient Data Lost in Laptop Theft Once again, lost notebook PCs have exposed the data of thousands of health care patients.
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InternetNews December 14, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Boeing Grappling With Data Theft Hundreds of thousands at Boeing get free credit checks after yet another laptop slipped away. Is it enough to prevent ID theft?
InternetNews January 28, 2010	National Archives Breach Tags Ex-Clinton Staffers The National Archives and Records Administration is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that a hard drive storing their Social Security numbers and personal data has gone missing.
InternetNews September 17, 2010	Rice University Deals With New Data Breach A stolen device containing student and faculty data went missing, putting personal information including Social Security numbers and birth dates up for grabs.
InternetNews October 20, 2009	Privacy Still Dogs Electronic Health Records New study highlights security shortcomings with the ways medical facilities are digitizing patients' records.
InternetNews October 29, 2009	California Medicaid Members' Data Exposed Thousands of Orange County patients' on high alert after CDs go missing.
InternetNews February 8, 2010	The Biggest Security Breaches of 2009 There were some spectacular data breaches last year. Here's some of the best, or worst, depending on your perspective.
InternetNews October 28, 2010	Patients' Medicaid Data Exposed in Breech Portable flash drive containing data from over 280,000 Medicaid recipients was misplaced.
CIO December 15, 2009 Kim S. Nash	Data Sharing That Benefits Customers At Children's Hospital Boston, sharing more data, securely, promises healthier, more satisfied patients.
InternetNews December 21, 2009	Hacker Breaches College Library System Incident compromises more than sensitive information of more than 51,000 patrons at 25 campus libraries.
InternetNews June 26, 2006 Roy Mark	Latest Breach Hits Navy The U.S. Navy is notifying as many as 28,000 in the latest government failure to protect personal data.
InternetNews May 23, 2006 Roy Mark	VA Data Breach Stirs Washington In the second-largest data breach on record -- and the biggest Social Security numbers breach ever - the Department of Veterans Affairs disclosed Monday approximately 26.5 million veterans are at risk of identity theft.
InternetNews July 20, 2005 Tim Gray	Hackers Head to School in Droves Universities appear to be the new favorite target of hackers, as the University of Southern California becomes the latest to get hit.
Managed Care June 2003	Effectiveness of review process in eye of beholder From January 1999 to December 2000, 263 independent medical reviews were conducted in California as a result of patients trying to overturn coverage decisions by health plans. The Institute of Medical Quality surveyed those patients to obtain their opinions on the review process.
InternetNews February 28, 2008	Google Eyes Medical Records, Data Sharing Business Google has unveiled a plan to help U.S. patients gain control of their medical records and is working with doctors' groups, pharmacies and labs to help them securely share sensitive health data.
InternetNews May 26, 2006 Clint Boulton	Sacred Heart Data Hacked Sacred Heart University became the latest school to fall victim to a computer hack, which exposed the personal information of as many as 135,000 students and alumni.
BusinessWeek January 8, 2007	Diagnosis: Identity Theft For $60, a thief can buy your health records - and use them to get costly care. Guess who gets the bill.
InternetNews June 3, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Privacy a Stumbling Block in Healthcare IT Government's push for universal electronic health records brings tech firms into thorny privacy debate.
InternetNews September 27, 2006 Ed Sutherland	GE Employee Data Stolen From Laptop General Electric alerted 50,000 current and former employees that a stolen laptop held names and Social Security numbers.
InternetNews January 17, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Less Data, More Security Will data minimization be the key to enhancing data security? Experts say it's a trend to watch.
InternetNews December 6, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Can MySpace Protect Its People? MySpace said this week it has found a way to protect its users from convicted sexual offenders, but Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal calls it "ineffective."
InternetNews July 12, 2010	Stolen Drive Puts AMR Employee Records at Risk American Airlines parent company is the latest public company dealing with a data breach that exposed nearly 80,000 employees' Social Security numbers and other personal information.
InternetNews May 5, 2010	Thousands of Kentucky Medical Records Lost A flash drive storing patient names, birth dates, admission and discharge dates, as well as insurance information has gone missing from a Kentucky psychiatric hospital.
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CIO August 1, 2005 Susannah Patton	An End to Medical Forms? Patients could keep all their medical information online using iHealthRecord, a new service that Medem (a joint venture of the American Medical Association and six other medical societies) introduced in May.
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InternetNews June 16, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate Takes up Data Security Law FTC commissioners set to testify before panel that will enforce any new data privacy laws.
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