Computers with patient data stolen from Nagasaki hospital/.

(From The Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri)

Computers with patient data stolen from Nagasaki hospital

Yomiuri

NAGASAKI

NAGASAKI--Six notebook computers with data on about 9,000 patients have been stolen from Nagasaki University Hospital of Medicine and Dentistry in Nagasaki, a university official said.

The data contained names, gender, dates of birth, and diagnoses of people who visited the hospital's hematology division since the early 1990s, the official said.

The computers were stolen sometime between 11 p.m. on Sept. 14 and 8 a.m. the next day. The university reported the case to the police immediately, the official …