My husband just found out today that several laptop computers
containing medical data, including social security numbers, were
stolen from his doctor's office. His data was on the stolen
computers. The laptops belonged to the company that manufactured his
hip implant. Company reps were at the doctor's office reviewing, and
apparently collecting, patient data.
I am really steamed. What kind of idiots put sensitive data on easily
stolen computers? Everybody, it seems. I have to call them tomorrow
and try to find out if the data was encrypted. It probably wasn't.
In compensation, they gave him a free year with a credit monitoring /
ID-theft prevention service, but we're not satisfied. We're always
told to safeguard our SS#, but every Tom, Dick and Harry insists on
having it, and then they give it away to strangers and fail to
protect it! Is there anything we can do to try to protect him, and to
punish these idiots?
Siri Amrit
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