Dawn reports:
A case has been registered against an employee of the Quaid-i-Azam Hospital for allegedly stealing data from the CT scan machine and according to a supreme court lawyer, the case might be the first of its kind in the country.
Iftikhar Ali, the chief security officer at the hospital, who is the complainant in the FIR, told Dawn that an employee had stolen patient data from the hospital in connivance with others.
“I cannot give you the exact number of patients whose data was stolen, but it is a large number because the information in question was collected over four years,” he said.
Mr Ali said the patients’ names, phone numbers and addresses were included in the records that were stolen.
Read more on Dawn. Once again, we see the risks of data being stolen from devices, where the data are generally not as well protected as in databases where people are more aware of security and have some measures in place.