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The operator of 12 hospitals in Indiana and Illinois is notifying more than a quarter-million patients that CDs containing their Social Security numbers and other personal information were lost for three days over the summer, reported the Associated Press (AP).
The Sisters of St. Francis Health Services, which operates 10 hospitals in Indiana and two in Illinois, said in its warning letter that an employee of a medical billing contractor copied the data onto several CDs in July and placed them in a new computer bag to work from home. That employee later went back to the store to exchange the bag, but accidentally left the discs inside. The person who bought the bag three days later immediately returned the discs and officials were confident the data was not accessed, the AP report stated.
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