The Boston Globe reports that a Boston Children's Hospital employee lost a laptop containing sensitive personal information--including names, birth dates, diagnoses and treatment information--of 2,159 patients. Misplaced in Argentina, the laptop was password protected but not encrypted, and the file in question was an e-mail attachment, the report states. The hospital's chief information officer said, "we are undertaking additional steps to prevent breaches such as this in the future." Meanwhile, a California Department of Social Services spokesman said the agency is changing how it transports sensitive information in light of a recent loss of data on more than 700,000 individuals.
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