Mari A. Schaefer reports:
About 1,000 patients at Penn Medicine are receiving letters saying a computer with some of their personal information on it was stolen.
A laptop containing patient files was reported stolen from a car at the King of Prussia Mall parking lot on Nov. 30, according to a spokesperson at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. So far, there is no indication the computer has been turned on or the patient information accessed, they stated.
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So they’re “reviewing internal procedures to safeguard patient information contained on portable devices?” At this point, I think I would have rather read that they fired the employee who left the laptop in a car in a mall parking lot. Can people really not know by now?