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Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

Emory Healthcare revealed that 10 backup discs that contained patient information are missing from a storage location at Emory University Hospital.  The discs were determined to have been removed sometime between February 7, 2012, and February 20, 2012.  The patient information was related to surgery and included names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, dates of surgery, procedure codes or the name of the surgical procedures, surgeon names, anesthesiologist names, device implant information, a

Root cause

Portable device theft

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