Valley Hope Association, a Kansas-based organization that provides drug and alcohol addiction treatment, experienced a data security breach after a work-issued laptop containing patient information was stolen from an employee’s car, according to an article on the Health IT Security website.
Valley Hope said that sensitive patient information is potentially at risk.
Valley Hope mailed data breach notification letters about the incident to all potentially affected individuals.
All of those individuals will also receive free credit monitoring and restoration services for one year.
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