Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has been fined £325,000.
The issuing of the penalty follows the discovery of highly sensitive
personal data belonging to tens of thousands of patients and staff on hard
drives sold on an internet auction site in October and November 2010. The
data ended up on the auction site after an individual who was engaged by
the Trust's IT service provider to destroy approximately 1000 hard drives,
sold them without deleting the data contained on the devices. The fine is
the highest issued by the ICO since it was granted the power to issue fines
in April 2010.
PDP Compliance newsletter (dated 6/6/12)
Mike Gater
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