[Dataloss] Hospitals in Hong Kong lose data on 3, 000 patients in thefts

[Henry Brown]

Follow up with additional records lost...

 From the Hong Kong  Standard  http://www.thestandard.com.hk/

http://tinyurl.com/5un6rd

The Privacy Commission for Personal Data is using its statutory powers 
for the first time to investigate the Hospital Authority and Department 
of Health following the loss of yet another USB memory stick containing 
patients' data.

The Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin yesterday revealed that the 
personal data of 10,000 patients had been lost, bringing the total 
number of patients whose information has been lost or stolen to 16,000.

A Prince of Wales laboratory analyst was behind the latest loss after he 
left a memory stick in a taxi on May 1.

So far, up to 10 memory sticks containing patients' information have 
been lost or stolen.

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Subject: [Dataloss] Hospitals in Hong Kong lose data on 3,000 patients 
in thefts
From: rchick <rchicker at etiolated.org>
To: dataloss at attrition.org
Date: 5/5/2008 8:45 AM
> http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/health/news/article_1403455.php/Hospitals_in_Hong_Kong_lose_data_on_3000_patients_in_thefts
>
> Health News
> May 5, 2008, 10:23 GM
>
> Hong Kong - Data on more than 3,000 patients in Hong Kong public
> hospitals has been lost through the theft of computer memory sticks,