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First fine for NHS Data Protection Breach |
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The Information Commissioner has fined an NHS Trust for sending a letter with a patients medical details to the wrong patient.
The Aneurin Bevan Health Board (ABHB) has been issued with a penalty of £70,000 after a sensitive report - containing explicit details relating to a patient’s health - was sent to the wrong person. Key points from this are:
- Only one patient was affected yet they still received a heavy fine.
- Lack of data protection training was highlighted as the main reason for the fine.
- Mistake was human error – just an unfortunate set of circumstances.
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I know your password |
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You know it's time to change your password when it appears on a list of the 25 most common passwords. A recent study by SplashData has revealed their top 25 list, which includes all the old favorites.
Changing your password from a default setting is an absolute must. So whenever you get a new PC, router, switch or a new piece of software - change the password as soon as possible. This simple step takes 30 seconds but could save you hours of headaches in future.
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Be careful when you dispose of old computers |
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We always recommend clients wipe hard disks before disposing of their computers. Hitting the delete button is not enough to get rid of the information, so extra protection is required. For general use PCs a tool such as Dukes Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is great - overwriting your files with lots of rubbish data to make your information irretrievable. And for more sensitive machines and file servers disks can be shredded and physically destroyed for a couple of pounds.
An NHS Trust has now fallen foul of the Data Protection Act and risks a hefty fine for losing hard disks from old computers.
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