Irish blood donor records stolen in New York

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0219/blood.html

A computer containing over 171,000 confidential blood donor records and 
other files from the Irish Blood Transfusion Service has been stolen.

The data, which the Blood Service says was securly encryped, was given to 
the New York Blood centre in December on a computer disk.

It was part of a software upgrading programme for the Irish Service.

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