Blue Ridge Surgery Center Data Breach (2016)

Stolen Blue Ridge Surgery Center laptop was encrypted, but password was with it. employee's encrypted work laptop had been stolen during a break-in at the employee's residence that same day. The employee reported the theft to law enforcement and we immediately began our own investigation. Our investigation determined that the password was with the laptop at the time of the theft, and the laptop contained email files that may have included patients' names, addresses, treatment information and health insurers' names, identification numbers and in some instances, Social Security numbers.