http://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/teesdale-news/story,1843.html Teesdale Mercury Sep 16, 2008 TEESDALE is at the centre of the latest data loss scandal after a memory stick containing information on hundreds of NHS mental health patients was found by a member of the public in a Barnard Castle street. The Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Trust, whose jurisdiction Teesdale falls within, said the ‘serious breach of patient confidentiality’ happened after a computer technician, who had been upgrading PCs in Teesdale, failed to delete the information from the portable stick. Early investigations into the security breach also unveiled that other members of staff at the trust had stored confidential data on their hard drives, contravening trust policies on information security. The Mercury learned of the latest government blunder after one of the patients’ whose information had been on the stick contacted the newspaper. [...] __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/Received on Wed Sep 17 2008 - 00:04:35 PDT
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