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Hospitals Far From Immune To Patient Data Theft

2013-01-04 - InfoWorld

...the study. When this data falls into a bad guy's hands, it increases the victim's risk of suffering financial or medical identity theft. In general, the primary cause of breaches was a lost or stolen computing device (46 percent), followed by employee mistakes...

Via DayLife

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