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UK: Gosport podiatrist's confidential records laptop stolen

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dissent

BBC reports:

A laptop containing personal and medical information of up to 1,500 people has been stolen from a podiatry clinic in Hampshire.

The Zoostorm laptop, containing unencrypted data, was taken from the Walking On Air clinic in Gosport on Tuesday.

Podiatrist Natasha Townsend said the laptop did have a password.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said it would investigate the loss of the computer.

Ms Townsend said: “It’s got personal information on it but mostly all my medical patient notes which I need.

“I didn’t really know much about encryption and things like that. I’m not very good with computers.”

Read more on BBC.

Seriously – if she “doesn’t know much” and doesn’t know how to protect medical records, she could have hired someone to set up her security for her.

Ignorance is really no excuse for this, and I hope the ICO issues a fine to send a strong message that practitioners need to take security seriously and invest in it.

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