The confidential information of 47,000 University of Miami patients was stolen in March when a case holding backup tapes the information was taken off a truck used by an off-site storage company, UM said. Anyone who has been a patient of a UM physician or visited a UM facility since Jan. 1, 1999 is likely included on the tapes, UM said in a news release. The data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers or health information. The university said it will notify the affected patients whose data may have included credit card or other financial information. Shortly after the incident, UM said it determined a thief would be unlikely to access the tapes because they were written in a complex and proprietary format. UM said it contacted computer security experts at Terremark Worldwide to independently determine the feasibility of accessing the tapes.
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