US Kathleen Whisman M.D. Apr 2013 Physical Action (Q16389)
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A data breach risk event
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A data breach risk event |
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April 2013
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The California Attorney Generals Office released yesterday a copy of a data breach notification letter sent by California physician Kathleen E. Whisman to patients after the San Ramon, Calif. Police Department alerted her on April 11, 2013 that her patients data was part of an identity fraud ring. PHIPrivacy.net reports that the breach originated in 1999 when Whisman lost a laptop that held an undetermined amount of data from patients in her care from 1998 to 1999. The breach notification letter, written by her attorneys, claimed that they can only speculate that the information on the suspects computer was removed from a recently stolen computer. In 1999, Dr. Whisman was changing billing companies and she believes that the patient information had been stored on the stolen computer to ass (English)
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