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2009 — Aurora: 6,400 people who were in-patients at St, 6K records

2009 6.4K records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

6,400 people who were in-patients at St. Luke's are being warned that their name, Social Security number and other information may have landed in the hands of thieves, due to a stolen laptop computer. All of the at-risk individuals were cared for there at some point by a hospitalist, a physician other than the patient's primary care doctor, who works for an independent physician group called Cogent Healthcare. The computer was stolen from a locked office in a secure physician office building tha

Root cause

Portable device theft

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