Details of 170,000 blood donors on laptop stolen in US

A laptop containing over 170,000 confidential Irish patient files has been stolen during a mugging in New York in the last ten days.

Details of 170,000 blood donors on laptop stolen in US
Tue, 19 Feb, 2008 - 23:40

A laptop containing over 170,000 confidential Irish patient files has been stolen during a mugging in New York in the last ten days.

The Irish Blood Transfusion Board gave the laptop to the New York Blood Centre which was upgrading software that was to be used in Ireland.

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