You really shouldn't leave laptop computers containing just what identity thieves need to start imitating you online and elsewhere in a place where they can be stolen. In fact, you don't want to leave valuable information like that unencrypted at all, regardless of the medium that's holding it.

These are things they seem to understand now at UCLA Medical Center in Westwood/Los Angeles, California, but only AFTER thieves made off with two laptop computers there. These two computers contained identity information belonging to over 200,000 people. Of these, 145,000 were people who'd donated blood and platelets to the UCLA Blood and Platelet Center since 1985 and 62,000 were people who had personal data of theirs on file with the UCLA Healthcare financial office.

The press office at UCLA Medical Center says it isn't releasing any information about these incidents beyond what's contained in its press release about them. You can read the press release by clicking here.

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