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Hospitals in Hong Kong lose data on 3, 000 patients in thefts
From: rchick <rchicker () etiolated org>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 09:45:30 -0400
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/health/news/article_1403455.php/Hospitals_in_Hong_Kong_lose_data_on_3000_patients_in_thefts Health News May 5, 2008, 10:23 GM Hong Kong - Data on more than 3,000 patients in Hong Kong public hospitals has been lost through the theft of computer memory sticks, officials said Monday. Nine memory sticks have been stolen from five hospitals across the city of 6.9 million in the past year, the hospital authority's chief executive Shane Solomon said. A task force headed by former privacy commissioner Stephen Lau has been set up to investigate the incidents and find ways of avoiding repeat occurrences, Solomon announced. The revelation came weeks after the hospital authority admitted medical data on almost 700 Hong Kong youngsters with developmental problems had been lost on a stolen memory stick. [..] _______________________________________________ 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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