[Dataloss] UK: Patients' records on stolen laptop

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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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