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London hospital loses 20,000 unencrypted patient files

London hospital loses 20,000 unencrypted patient files:


'Nobody expects thieves to break into locked drawers'


Providing proof, if it were needed, that every single piece of personal data in the UK has now been lost - probably several times over, by multiple corporations and government offices - news has just broken of another theft of laptops crammed with easily accessed info. This time the there-but-for-the-grace-of-god bonehead users were hospital staff at St George's hospital in Tooting.…



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