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13.06.12

NHS Trust Cannot Afford Data Breach

Source: Geoff Watson

Clearly there must be much more to this story (NHS trust cannot afford data breach, 6/6/12). Someone took away the hard drives and sold them…

If the trust sub-contracted the work of destroying the hard drives (as per Government policy) they are only culpable if their process of selection of the sub-contractor was at fault. The real story is about the individual who was arrested but not charged.

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