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UK: Patients' records on stolen laptop
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:50:49 +0000 (UTC)
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8iNPMcsfjtLDvAlPdRONHQBsB1Q A laptop containing confidential information about 11,000 patients has been stolen from a GP's home. Contrary to Department of Health guidelines, the information was not encrypted, which would have made it unreadable without a special code to unscramble it. The laptop was among items stolen in a recent burglary at the home of the unnamed doctor, who works at the Castlecroft Medical Practice in Wolverhampton. The information on the computer, which belongs to the practice, included patients' names, dates of birth, addresses, contact details and confidential medical records. The practice has written to all of its 11,000 patients to inform them that information about them was on the stolen computer. [...] _______________________________________________ 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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