The personal and sensitive medical information of about 15,500 patients of Northern California Kaiser were compromised last month after an external storage drive was stolen from an employee's car, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The breach, which was disclosed this week, occurred in December and Kaiser officials say the compromised information may include names, addresses, telephone numbers, medical record numbers, age, gender and information related to treatment. No Social Security numbers or financial information was included on the drive, the hospital said. Kaiser said it has fired the individual responsible for the breach for unauthorized use of electronic medical data.
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