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Stolen Laptop Leads To HIPAA Breach
Published on Fri Sep 05, 2014
Even when a stolen laptop ends up in the bottom of a lake, if you didn’t encrypt the device you’re sunk. Two intruders broke into the facilities of South Carolina-based Self Regional Healthcare and stole an unencrypted laptop containing 39,000 patient records, reports attorney Linn Foster Freed-man in a recent blog post for law firm Nixon Pea-body. Law enforcement later [...]