You keep using this word...

[venta]

The BBC says:

"The computers were taken from a locked cabinet in a secure room at St George's Hospital in Tooting, in June."

Surely, by definition, they were not taken from a secure room.

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[ewx.livejournal.com]

I'd trust neither journalists (who are largely incompetent) nor the hospital PR people (who have an interest in playing down the how serious it is) to convey accurate information about how the data was protected.

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

In addition to which, if the data is protected in a vaguely useful fashion that the thieves might have actual trouble with, publicising the details would be less than ideal behaviour.... (cf the famous case of the Argentine bombs in the Falklands, although that was really slightly more complex than it tends to be portrayed as being.)