Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford Data Breach (2013)

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and the Stanford University School of Medicine are notifying patients by mail that a password-protected laptop computer containing limited medical information on pediatric patients was stolen from a physician's car away from campus on the night of Jan. 9, 2013. This incident was reported to Packard Children's and the School of Medicine on Jan. 10. Immediately following discovery of the theft, Packard Children's and the School of Medicine launched an aggressive and ongoing investigation with security and law enforcement, and began contacting patients potentially affected.