Scottish Ambulance Service Loses 895,000 Patient Records

The ENCRYPTED disk contained 894,629 call records between February 2006 and June 2008, including the addresses of incidents, phone numbers and patient names.

Unlike so many other incidents, at least this company:

• Encrypted their data before transporting it.
• Immediately notified authorities.
• Immediately admitted to the public what happened and disclosed details.
• Doesn’t try to hide the incident from the public.

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