The Medical College of Wisconsin is contacting hundreds of people after a patient privacy breach . A spokesperson says a document containing private information on approximately 400 patients and a laptop with information on one patient were stolen . It happened when somebody broke into a doctor 's car . The Medical College says no social security numbers or addresses were stolen and issued the following statement : " The Medical College of Wisconsin is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our patients ' healthcare information . Firm policies are in place prohibiting the downloading of patient information to portable media , as well as the secured transport of documents containing patient information . A violation of these policies occurred on February 15 , 2015 , resulting in the theft of a document containing private information on approximately 400 patients , as well as information stored on a laptop computer pertaining to one patient . We sincerely regret that this unfortunate event occurred . Impacted patients are being contacted and we have taken steps to prevent this type of event from reoccurring . We want to assure our community that the Medical College of Wisconsin takes incidents such as this very seriously and individuals who violate our privacy policies are subject to disciplinary action . " ;