Top 3 Medical Organizations to lose data in 2008
Written by IT News on 1:45 PM
IT security world continues to be plagued by incidents of data loss; laptops with confidential data are stolen or lost at airports, have disks, USB memory devices are hidden, and so forth. According technology blue chips, among all the things that cause data to be lost, human error accounts for 26% of everything. Let's see now the first three companies that manage to lose private, confidential data this year and the number of people affected by these incidents.
No sooner does not begin by 2008 Horizon Cross Blue Shield Blue found in one of its laptops were stolen. On 5 January, a laptop containing information about 300000 people covered by Horizon was stolen while in custody of employees who have not yet been identified. Thankfully, the data on the laptop was password protected and scheduled to automatically delete itself in 17 days' time (23 January).
In February, from one blood bank
Number one spot goes to
Note that the ranking is presented above in respect of organizations which specialize in medical services. Currently all the winner when it comes to loss of data is U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which managed to lose data for 28.6 million people in May 2006.
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