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http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/01/22...rmation-stolen

Only quoted part of the article below...

The theft of an unencrypted laptop in Edmonton means the personal health information of over 620,000 Albertans may be compromised, an “outraged” Health Minister Fred Horne said Wednesday.

Medicentres Family Health Care Clinics says the laptop was stolen from an information technology consultant on Sept. 26, 2013, and contains the names, birth dates, provincial health card numbers, billing codes, and diagnostic codes of 620,000 Albertans.

Medicentres notified the Edmonton Police Service and Alberta’s Information Privacy Commissioner of the theft on Oct. 1, 2013, but Health Minister Fred Horne was outraged that his office was only just told on Tuesday, nearly four months later.

“I am quite frankly outraged that this would not have been reported to myself or my department sooner,” said Horne, concerned for the safety of Albertan’s health information.

“Let’s be clear — personal information has been compromised. The information was stored on a laptop in unencrypted form and, to my knowledge, the information has not been recovered.”

The affected patients were seen at private walk-in clinics between May 2, 2011 and September 19, 2013, said Medicentres, adding they have no information suggesting the stolen information has been accessed or misused.

First the studen loan stuff was stolen, and now this...