TN: Missing: Lifeblood laptops with personal info on thousands of donors

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/feb/13/missing-lifeblood-laptops-personal-information-tho/

Laptop computers with the birth dates and other personal information of 
roughly 321,000 blood donors are missing and the Mid-South.s primary blood 
supplier is warning individuals to take steps to protect themselves.

The advice is contained in letters that Lifeblood, Mid-South Regional 
Blood Center, is sending to anyone who donated or attempted donate blood 
as far back as 1990.

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In most cases, Balink said the donor's Social Security number was also 
stored, along with driver's license and telephone numbers, e-mail address 
as well as ethnic, marital status, blood type and cholesterol levels.

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