On September 11th, a letter went out from Cedars-Sinai Medical informing patients that on June 23rd, 2014 an employee's home was burglarized.  A Cedars-Sinai issued laptop computer was stolen in the burglary; and, it included troubleshooting software for their clinical labratory reporting.  The employee reported the theft to both law enforcement and Cedars-Sinai on the same day the laptop went missing.  To date, the laptop has been missing and no arrests have been made.

Information on the laptop which affects the patients was potentially stored in temporary files on the hard drive.  Some of the data would have included names, health insurance and billing information, medical record numbers, dates of birth, and driver's license numbers.  Unfortunately, the laptop's hard drive was not encrypted – though, it was password protected.

The laptop also had remote access to the Cedars-Sinai network and that capability was immediately disabled. 

Initially, the assessment of the number of patient records impacted had been around 500 but just recently did a forensics firm adjusted this count to 33,136.