University of California, San Francisco is sending notification letters to 9,986 of its patients due to a security data breach involving unencrypted desktop computers that contained some personal and health information.
The desktops were stolen from the UCSF Family Medicine Center at Lakeshore on January 13, 2014 where UCSF police and UCSF officials were immediately notified.
After performing a technical analysis, UCSF reported that the information contained on the desktop computers included:
- individuals’ names
- dates of birth, mailing addresses
- medical record numbers, health insurance ID numbers
- driver’s license numbers
- Social Security numbers were also involved for 125 individuals
UCSF has alerted the California Department of Public Health, the California Attorney General, and federal authorities. Additionally, credit monitoring is being offered to the affected patients whose Social Security Numbers were involved.
