Latest embarrassing loss of data (NHS and Police) in leaky security UK

NHS: Personal details of 18,000 staff 'lost in the post'

Police lose top secret info on memory stick

Both these links are to articles in the Telegraph.

A senior NHS hospital manager has been suspended after a laptop containing the confidential details of 21,000 patients was stolen.

Hospital manager suspended over stolen laptop with 21,000 patient records
Article in the Telegraph

Extract:

"The manager, from the Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, is understood to have the left the password-protected computer in the car while it was parked in Edinburgh on June 18th.

It has on it unencrypted names, dates of birth and treatment plans and a police investigation had been launched."

Incredible, isn't it, the laxity of security of NHS patient records?

Junior doctors' personal details made public for a time on the internet

Junior doctors' personal details made public in website blunder - Guardian

Extract:

"The Department of Health has apologised after a security lapse on the junior doctors recruitment website enabled confidential information on thousands of applicants, including their sexual orientation and previous convictions, to be accessed by the public yesterday.

With the application process already beset by controversy, the security breach on the site where junior doctors apply for postgraduate medical training programmes is yet another blow to the scheme.

From at least 9am yesterday, many forms of personal information, including doctors' addresses, home phone numbers and religion, were available for eight hours on the NHS medical training website, a breach initially revealed by Channel 4 news."

You've got to hand it to the Department of Health. - Their unfailing ability to make a bad situation worse is unsurpassable...


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