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UK: Health records of Brown and Salmond ‘hacked’

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Dissent
David Leask reports:
The health records of Gordon Brown and Alex Salmond were allegedly hacked into, a newspaper claimed last night.

The Prime Minister and First Minister are among several high-profile Scots whose confidential files were allegedly accessed without their permission, according to the report.

The two leaders’ medical details are on a single database set up for half of the population of Scotland three years ago, amid NHS guarantees that they were safe from prying eyes.

[…]

The system contains the names, ages, addresses and occupations of patients, as well as details of any current medication and allergies or adverse reactions to medicines. It is not understood to contain a complete medical history.

Read more on Scotland on Sunday

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