[Dataloss] UK: Hospital staff ID is 'lost' in data blunder

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http://www.bexleytimes.co.uk/content/bexley/times/news/story.aspx?brand=BXYOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsbxy&itemid=WeED16%20Jan%202008%2017%3A02%3A37%3A830

SENSITIVE data spanning 20 years has gone missing from a hospital.

Records containing names, addresses, national insurance numbers and bank 
details of staff at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, disappeared last 
October but staff were only told on Tuesday.

NHS bosses are clueless as to how the incident happened and insist that 
there is no evidence that the data was stolen.

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