[Dataloss] UK: Details on 200 children stolen

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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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