Corrupted image files in Lightroom?

I opened up Lightroom this morning and noticed that some of my files from a recent shoot look like this:
Are they corrupted?
If so, how does that happen? I've never seen this before and I have thousands of images in LR.

Thanks. I read through a few of the other threads. I found one comment that might be applicable to my situation:
Good - most often this tell-tale/signature-looking corruption is due to hardware - transfer hardware if corrupt upon first rendering (true raw rendering, not initial preview display), hard disk if corrupt after first rendering. And sometimes ram.
I think this may have had something to do with how I got these files onto my computer. I shot the pictures while visiting family. I had my Macbook Pro with me, which is not my main image editing machine. I imported the files into LR4 on the MPB from the 5D3 using the USB cable.
When I returned home, I moved the files from their location on the MBP to a USB flash drive, and then imported them from the flash drive to LR4 on my Mac Pro (which is my main image editing machine).
The corrupted images are only from this group. So I'm hoping that it was the transfer to and from the flash drive that caused this, especially since I've never experienced it before and don't see it in any of my other images.
Fingers crossed!

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