Keep your hard drives safe, warn experts, as a survey finds more discarded ones with sensitive information
For the past month or so, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust has been dealing with a problem that should not have happened – all because a computer hard drive containing sensitive patient information from a trust hospital was sold on the auction site eBay.
Losing disks loaded with confidential data is not a new thing; BT and Glamorgan University’s forensics computing laboratory have been finding such hard drives every year as part of their annual survey designed to highlight the problem of people disposing of disks without destroying the data on them.
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