[privacy] Red Cross Laptop with Donor Information Stolen

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via MSNBC (AP).

[snip]

A laptop containing personal information from thousands of blood donors
— including Social Security numbers and medical information — was
stolen from a local office of the American Red Cross, but officials
said the information was encrypted.

The data included matching names and birth dates of donors from Texas
and Oklahoma, as well as donors’ sexual and disease histories.

“We haven’t viewed this as a security breach at this point,” Darren
Irby, spokesman for the national American Red Cross office, told The
Dallas Morning News for its Saturday editions.

[snip]

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13657607/


Note: This data breach disclosure comes on the heels of another
recent Red Cross incident in the Missouri-Illinois Region where
donors were warned that personal information about them could have
been stolen earlier this year by a former employee:

 http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/05/red-cross-warns-blood-donors-of.html

- ferg


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