The data breach occurred when an employee lost a laptop containing a file with information on 2,159 patients while at a conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The file included names, birth dates, diagnoses and treatment information but no financial data or Social Security numbers. The laptop was password protected but not encrypted, and the file was on the laptop in an e-mail attachment.
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