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August 19, 2010

Yale warns stolen computer had medical information

The Yale School of Medicine says it has begun notifying about 1,000 people whose health information was contained on a stolen laptop computer, The Associated Press reports.

Yale officials said there was no indication any information on the computer has been misused.

Yale and New Haven police are investigating.

The computer was stolen July 28 from the office of a data analyst at the School of Medicine. Yale officials said no Social Security, financial or insurance numbers were contained in the computer's files.

While access to the laptop was protected by a password, files were not encrypted.

Dr. Robert Alpern, dean of the School of Medicine, said Yale deeply regrets the incident and is moving quickly to introduce security upgrades.

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