Pharmaceutical company Shire is notifying an unspecified number of individuals that their personal and medical information was on a laptop stolen from an employee 's car in Washington D.C. The laptop , which was issued by Shire Human Genetic Therapies , Inc. was stolen on December 30th and its theft was reported to the police immediately . Investigation into the incident revealed that the laptop contained name , address , date of birth , telephone number , last four digits of Social Security number , dates of treatment , description of medical condition , and the therapeutic drug the patient was using . According to the notification letter signed by Perry Sternberg , Head of Neurosciences and Commercial Excellence , the information came from 2014 Shire records . Those affected were offered one year of services with Kroll . There is no mention of whether the employee was violating any policy by not having the data encrypted on the laptop or by leaving the laptop in a situation where it could be stolen . ;