Patients' Data on Stolen Laptop

A government laptop computer containing sensitive medical information on 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study was stolen in February, potentially exposing seven years' worth of clinical trial data, including names, medical diagnoses and details of the patients' heart s...
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Ellen Nakashima and Rick Weiss

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Andrew Arai

National Institutes of Health

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Elizabeth Nabel

Susan Dambrauskas

Alison Wichman

John Burklow

Leslie Harris

Federal Bureau of Investigation

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Center for Information Technology

Center for Democracy Technology

U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Montgomery County (Maryland)

NHLBI Institutional Review Board

Information Privacy

Veterans' Affairs

Identity Theft

Crime

Technology

Science and Technology

Information Technology

Medical Technology

Clinical Trials

Medical Specializations

Medicine

Health and Fitness

Computer Technology

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