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Chicago Medical Group Faces Privacy Breach Lawsuit

Sunday, Sep 15 2013
The Buzz
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Advocate Medical Group is facing a class action lawsuit stemming from the theft of four computers from Advocate’s Park Ridge location in July. So reports The Chicago Tribune.

The stolen computers contained information on more than 4 million patients. The suit alleges the medical practice, the largest in the Chicago area, violated privacy regulations by failing to use encryption and other security measures to protect the data.

Read the full article on The Chicago Tribune.

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