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University of Miami: 2.1 Million Medical Records 'Lost'

Dan Kaplan writes on SC Magazine US:

The University of Miami disclosed on Friday that one of its storage vendors lost a number of back-up tapes containing the personal information of more than two million patients.

The university, located in Coral Gables, Fla., said in a news release that the data includes names, Social Security numbers, addresses and health information for patients of University of Miami physicians or anyone who visited a university health facility since Jan. 1, 1999.

The university did not say how many individuals were affected, but the Miami Herald reported on Friday that the total could be as high as 2.1 million people. The school did say that it planned to alert 47,000 patients whose credit card and other financial data were on the lost tapes.

posted by Fergie @ 4/18/2008 10:43:00 PM