Details of more than 3,000 current and former employees of Birmingham City University were among 35,000 private health customer records stolen from a security van.
Personal information including their home addresses, dates of birth, claims details and scanned letters of correspondence were stored on a computer tape stolen from the van.
The tape containing the data was taken in April as a security firm transported them to the offices of Bristol-based private medical health insurance firm Medisure, which administrates high street pharmacy Boots’ health care schemes.
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