A unencrypted laptop containing personal information on about 21,000 patients --including Social Security numbers -- was stolen at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia.
A total of 111,000 Medicaid recipients in Colorado have been notified that a hard drive containing information about them is missing and may have been stolen from a state office.
Unencrypted backup computer files containing personal, health and financial information on about 800,000 people may have been lost by a company that a Massachusetts hospital hired to destroy the files.
The California Department of Health Care Services has notified nearly 30,000 individuals of a breach stemming from the loss of a compact disk that may not have been encrypted.
The official federal tally of major healthcare information breaches is now "new and improved," with a searchable format and the names of private practices revealed.
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