Medical Center Notifying 5,000 Patients Following Data Theft
The Medical Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is notifying over 5,000 patients that their personal data may be at risk, after an unencrypted hard drive containing their information was stolen from the hospital’s mammography unit.
The Medical Center is now stepping up their efforts to implement encryption for all mobile and portable storage devices, and is trying to centralize the storage of sensitive information on a protected internal network, rather than being stored on hundreds of computers throughout the facility.