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Laptops missing from London England Hospital
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:39:38 -0500
From the London Evening Standard http://tinyurl.com/5zbrfw Laptops holding tens of thousands of patients' records have been stolen from a hospital and a GP's home, it emerged yesterday. In the latest lost personal data scandal, the information was stored on the machines in contravention of NHS guidelines. It was revealed that details of 20,000 patients were on six laptops stolen earlier this month from filing cabinets at St George's Hospital, in Tooting, South West London. It is the fourth data breach the hospital has suffered in the past year. The data includes patients' names, postcodes, hospital numbers and dates of birth and can be accessed if passwords are cracked. Normally such information is stored on the hospital's central network, but because of technical problems it was being stored temporarily on the laptops. It was also admitted last night that the medical histories of 11,000 patients, along with their names, addresses and dates of birth, were on a laptop stolen from a GP's home in Wolverhampton. The information was not encrypted as it was supposed to be, and is only password protected. Following both thefts, the health trusts concerned have written to the patients affected and have informed police. But they insisted there was no reason to believe the computers were targeted for anything but their monetary value. [...] _______________________________________________ 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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