Data stolen nearly 800 cancer patients

amsterdam - Thieves have stolen an unprotected hard drive with data from 781 cancer patients from the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital. The disk was stolen in December from the trunk of the car of an investigator, the Amsterdam hospital announced on Thursday.

It comes to patient data or names participating in scientific research. Of these 199 patients are still alive.

The theft was only recently reported to the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. According to the hospital staff should not take patient data on insecure media.,, That this has happened, we deeply regret, '' said Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.