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Welsh NHS Trust data loss could easily have been avoided
January 2009 by Marc Jacob
Credant Technologies, the military grade encryption specialist, says that a Welsh NHS Trust, which has been rapped over the knuckles for being in breach of the Data Protection Act after losing data on 5,000 patients held on a laptop, could very easily have avoided the problem had it used encryption technology.
According to Callahan, had the Trust used encryption on the laptop -in line with security policies in a growing number of companies in the private sector - then the embarrassment and possible litigation from the patients concerned could have been avoided.
Whilst the data held on the laptop was password protected, Callahan says that breaking Windows password protection is now relatively easy on a notebook, especially if the hard drive is removed and installed on a hacker’s test bench.
