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UK: Personal data stolen with Powys LHB laptop

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Dissent

More on the Trulife laptop theft from 2008 that was never reported until mid-2009:

A computer containing personal information about patients who have visited Powys teaching Local Health Board’s (tLHB) orthotics department has been stolen.
Remarkably this incident happened in February 2008 but the third party in charge of the laptop only informed Powys tLHB about the theft in June 2009.

Trulife, Powys tLHB’s orthotics provider, informed police at the time of the theft but failed to flag up the theft to the health board for a further 18 months, meaning they have only now been able to identify the number of patients affected and the level of details containing on the laptop.

Read more on County Times.

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