From: lyger (lygerattrition.org)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2008 - 06:51:28 CST

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http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/03/05/details-on-200-children-stolen/

A laptop with confidential information about more than 200 children -
including their names, addresses, dates of birth and treatment - has been
stolen from a Shropshire medical centre.

The thief walked into Madeley Health Centre, Telford, while a speech and
language therapist was running a clinic, unplugged her laptop from an
adjoining room and walked off with it.

Health chiefs quickly deactivated the laptop to ensure it could not be
used to access general NHS data.

But a memory stick plugged into the machine carried details on 238
children, giving their names, addresses, dates of birth and speech and
language therapy treatment.

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