No 100% secure system: Another laptop stolen from NIH
As reported by the Washington Post a new case of stolen laptop has toke place.
A government laptop computer containing sensitive medical information on 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study was stolen in February, potentially exposing seven years’ worth of clinical trial data, including names, medical diagnoses and details of the patients’ heart scans. The information was not encrypted, in violation of the government’s data-security policy.
… “The shocking part here is we now have personally identifiable information — name and age — linked to clinical data,” said Leslie Harris…
Again and again… there is no 100% secure system. Privacy through anonymity was our leitmotif in keyose. And it will be.
Tags: privacidad, privacy
2008-03-26 at 5.44 pm
Más datos médicos robados de un portatil…
Y ya van dos casos. Como se informa en en Washington Post: Un portátil propiedad del gobierno que contenía información médica sensible de 2500 pacientes fue robado del coche de un investigador….