Re: [privacy] Red Cross Laptop with Donor Information Stolen

["Ahmad Elkhatib" <khatib () umich edu>]

> but officials
> said the information was encrypted.

Do you still have to declare the loss of the data even if it was encrypted ?


-Ahmad

On 7/1/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> Via MSNBC (AP).
>
> [snip]
>
> A laptop containing personal information from thousands of blood donors
> — including Social Security numbers and medical information — was
> stolen from a local office of the American Red Cross, but officials
> said the information was encrypted.
>
> The data included matching names and birth dates of donors from Texas
> and Oklahoma, as well as donors' sexual and disease histories.
>
> "We haven't viewed this as a security breach at this point," Darren
> Irby, spokesman for the national American Red Cross office, told The
> Dallas Morning News for its Saturday editions.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13657607/
>
>
> Note: This data breach disclosure comes on the heels of another
> recent Red Cross incident in the Missouri-Illinois Region where
> donors were warned that personal information about them could have
> been stolen earlier this year by a former employee:
>
> http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/05/red-cross-warns-blood-donors-of.html
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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