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Lifeblood
Two Laptop Computers Missing From Lifeblood's Main Office
March 1st, 2008
Two laptop computers are missing from Lifeblood's possession and presumed to be stolen. The dual-password protected laptops were used on mobile blood collection drives, and each included information about Lifeblood's blood donors, including names, contact information, blood type, gender, ethnicity, and, in some cases, Social Security numbers. The organization is notifying all of the approximately 320,000 affected individuals about the situation and encouraging them to place fraud alerts on their credit reports in the unlikely event that an unauthorized person gained access to the data on the computers. Based on the level of...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-03-01)
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