A laptop containing more than 8 million people's unencrypted medical records has gone missing from a National Health Service facility in London.

"The Sun reported on Wednesday that the laptop, which was lost along with 19 others three weeks ago, contained the unencrypted health details of over 8.63 million people and records of 18 million hospital visits, operations and procedures," writes ZDNet's Jack Clark. "It was taken from a storeroom of London Health Programmes, a medical research organization based within the NHS North Central London health authority."

"Both the UK's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), and the police are investigating," Clark writes.

Go to "NHS laptop loss could put millions of records at risk" to read the details.

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