<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-laptop-hospital-20170116-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-laptop-hospital-20170116-story.html</a><br><br>A stolen laptop may have contained information about nearly
3,600 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles patients, spurring the hospital to
warn families who might have been affected.<p>The laptop, which belonged to a physician, was taken out of a locked car during an October burglary, according to the hospital.</p>
<p>The computer may have stored names, addresses, medical record
numbers and some clinical information about patients. The laptop was
protected with a password, but the hospital says it is unclear if it was
“encrypted to current institutional standards.” </p><p>Based on
an investigation, “we believe that all data may have been erased from
the device without any patient data being accessed,” hospital spokesman
Lorenzo Benet said in a statement. </p>
<aside class="gmail-trb_ar_sponsoredmod gmail-trb_barker_mediaconductor"></aside><p>However, the hospital said that it was mailing letters to thousands of patients “out of an abundance of caution.”</p><p>Patients
who receive letters from the hospital will be instructed to carefully
review their health insurance documents for any signs that their
information is being misused.</p><br></div>