Probe urged into data security
A patients’ group made the call after the Irish Examiner revealed that dozens of laptops, USB sticks, and smartphones containing unspecified “sensitive” unencrypted data have disappeared over the past four years.
The situation includes 52 laptops, 13 USB sticks, three BlackBerrys, and one iPhone — 51 of which held sensitive information on patients and the system, and 20 of which had no encryption defences in place.
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