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Scottish Ambulance Service loses nearly 900, 000 records
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:54:25 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2219911/scottish-ambulance-service By Tom Young Computing 24 Jun 2008 The Scottish Ambulance Service has lost data relating to almost a million emergency calls including the name and addresses of patients, in the latest public sector data loss scandal. The disc went missing while courier TNT was transporting it to MIS Emergency Services, the company that supplies the IT system used in the ambulance service's three centres. The disc - which was encrypted - contained a copy of records of 894,629 calls to the service's Paisley centre since February 2006, including the addresses of incidents, some phone numbers and some patient names. "Given the security measures and the complex structure of the database it would be extremely difficult to gain access to any meaningful information," said a spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service. [..] _______________________________________________ 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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