[Dataloss] Scottish Ambulance Service loses nearly 900, 000 records

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By Tom Young
Computing
24 Jun 2008

The Scottish Ambulance Service has lost data relating to almost a million 
emergency calls including the name and addresses of patients, in the 
latest public sector data loss scandal.

The disc went missing while courier TNT was transporting it to MIS 
Emergency Services, the company that supplies the IT system used in the 
ambulance service's three centres.

The disc - which was encrypted - contained a copy of records of 894,629 
calls to the service's Paisley centre since February 2006, including the 
addresses of incidents, some phone numbers and some patient names.

"Given the security measures and the complex structure of the database it 
would be extremely difficult to gain access to any meaningful 
information," said a spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service.

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