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UK: Details on 200 children stolen
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:51:28 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/03/05/details-on-200-children-stolen/ A laptop with confidential information about more than 200 children - including their names, addresses, dates of birth and treatment - has been stolen from a Shropshire medical centre. The thief walked into Madeley Health Centre, Telford, while a speech and language therapist was running a clinic, unplugged her laptop from an adjoining room and walked off with it. Health chiefs quickly deactivated the laptop to ensure it could not be used to access general NHS data. But a memory stick plugged into the machine carried details on 238 children, giving their names, addresses, dates of birth and speech and language therapy treatment. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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