OT: Stolen medical data

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

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