NHS (UK) 300 breaches in 3 years

[Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01/nhs_ico_data_loss/
...

The NHS has reported 305 data breaches to the Information Commissioner's 
Office (ICO) since November 2007.

The figure for the NHS compares to 288 for the private sector, 132 for 
local government and 18 for central government. "It could be because of 
reporting differences or the NHS could be more prone to data breaches 
because they are dealing with sensitive data," an ICO spokesperson said.

The greatest cause of NHS data breaches was theft of hardware, with 116 
incidents where equipment containing personal data was stolen. A further 
87 incidents involved health service organisations losing hardware 
containing personal information.

The figure also includes 43 incidents where information was wrongly 
disclosed, 17 where data was "lost in transit", 13 cases involving the 
non-secure disposal of IT and 17 because of technical or procedural 
failures.

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