Stolen home monitoring firm laptop impacts 116K

| | Health Exec | Cybersecurity

A data breach, resulting from the theft of a laptop from the locked vehicle of a home monitoring company employee, has resulted in the notification of 116,000 potentially impacted individuals.

Alere Home Monitoring, Waltham, Mass., said in a release it has "no reason to believe" that the information on the stolen computer has actually been accessed or inappropriately used. The company-owned laptop contained individual information, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and diagnosis codes.

To prevent similar breaches from occurring in the future, Alere Home Monitoring has updated its information security program, including, but not limited to, deploying encryption to laptop computers that connect to its computer network, and providing additional education to its staff.

 

 

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