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SUMMARY

Hospital loses staff data CDs with information of 17990
Records 17,990
Record Types SSN NAA DOB FIN
Breach Type Lost Media
Data Family Electronic
Source Inside - Accidental
Organization The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Other Affected/Involved Organizations Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, Islington Primary Care Trust, Camden Primary Care Trust
Lawsuit? NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered? YES
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: jjturner

TIMELINE

DateEvent
None. Add Data Incident Occurred
2008-08-07 Incident Discovered By Organization
2008-09-15 Organization Reports Incident
2008-09-15 Organization Mails Notifications
2008-09-24 Records Recovered
None. Add Data Lawsuit Filed
None. Add Data Arrest Made

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MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

Address: Tottenham, Greater London N19 3, UK
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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $1,079,400.00
  1. Note that these estimates are based on the Ponemon Institute's 2009 direct costs figures from their 2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach. We multiply $60.00 by the number of records to obtain this figure. Keep in mind that depending on the breach, the direct costs are not always suffered by the breached organizations. In the case of credit card number breaches, the direct costs can often be suffered by banks and card issuers. Also note that this is only an estimate.

COMMENTS

by Anonymous on 2009-08-10 (almost 3 years ago)

Apparently the data discs were never lost, merely missing ... see "Hospital wastes £25,000 looking for missing data that was never lost " (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3081543/Hospital-wastes-25000-looking-for-missing-data-that-was-never-lost.html) and/or "Missing NHS discs found - but incident costs £25,000" (http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2008/10/hospital-accounts-for-missing.html).

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