UK: Laptops containing medical details of Birmingham patients stolen

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http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2009/08/29/laptops-containing-medical-details-of-birmingham-patients-stolen-97319-24559290/

LAPTOPS containing the private and medical details of more than 7,000 
Birmingham NHS patients, including sick children, have been stolen 
prompting a massive security alert.

Surgical firm Trulife used by four hospitals . Birmingham Children.s 
Hospital, City Hospital, in Winson Green, Sandwell Hospital, in West 
Bromwich, and Rowley Regis Hospital . has revealed that three computers 
have been taken.

One of them was taken after being left in a car by an employee, while 
another was snatched during a mugging.

None of the information on the missing laptops had been encrypted.

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