UCSF Alerting Patients to Potential Data Breach

On Wednesday, UC-San Francisco officials announced that personal information for about 4,400 patients might have been violated after a medical school employee's laptop was stolen in November.  The laptop has been recovered, and UCSF officials said there is no evidence the information was accessed.

• "UCSF Patient Records at Risk After Theft" (Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle, 1/28).
• "UCSF Says Laptop With 4,400 Patient Records Stolen, Then Recovered" (Rauber, San Francisco Business Times, 1/27).