The breach happened when an unauthorized person stole an unencrypted laptop from a doctors office.
The computers used by their doctors held crucial patient information.
The breach laid bare information pertaining to the patients medical history as well as Social Security numbers.
Total patients affected amounted to nearly 4,000.
The main issue in the lawsuit was that the hospital saved all such information without even encrypting it.
To read such data, a person needs to know the encryption algorithm- using which he can decode it.
South Shore was fined $750,000, and Women and Infants had to pay $150,000
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source: www.techworm.net
