From: lyger (lygerattrition.org)
Date: Wed Jun 18 2008 - 08:50:49 CDT

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http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8iNPMcsfjtLDvAlPdRONHQBsB1Q

A laptop containing confidential information about 11,000 patients has
been stolen from a GP's home.

Contrary to Department of Health guidelines, the information was not
encrypted, which would have made it unreadable without a special code to
unscramble it.

The laptop was among items stolen in a recent burglary at the home of the
unnamed doctor, who works at the Castlecroft Medical Practice in
Wolverhampton.

The information on the computer, which belongs to the practice, included
patients' names, dates of birth, addresses, contact details and
confidential medical records. The practice has written to all of its
11,000 patients to inform them that information about them was on the
stolen computer.

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