[ISN] Portland HIV day center asks for help retrieving stolen computer

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 03:07:44 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/portland_hiv_day_center_asks_f.html

By The Oregonian
September 04, 2008

A Portland program for low-income people with HIV is asking for help in 
retrieving a computer that was stolen from the center earlier this week.

The Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon's HIV Day Center, in Northeast 
Portland, found the door to their office forced open Tuesday morning. 
They said a few monitors, some mail and a computer that contains a 
database of patients who use the center were stolen.

The database is password protected, but the data was not encrypted, said 
Shawn Cunningham, a spokesman for Multnomah County which oversees the 
program. The county is in the process of notifying those whose 
information is on the database and is reviewing security procedures at 
those county programs that receive federal funding for HIV services.

A ministry spokeswoman urged that whoever took the computer return it, 
with no questions asked.

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