Home Office loses more data

A HOME OFFICE contractor has lost the personal details of 30,000 repeat offenders which was apparently on a memory stick.

PA Consulting, which lost the stick, said that it also contained data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales.

A Home Office spokesman said it had been made aware of a security and a full investigation was being conducted.

The stick included information from the Police National Computer of around 30,000 people with six or more convictions in the last year.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said Charlie Chaplin could do a better job running the Home Office than this Labour Government. While a good quote we don’t think that being silent about data breaches is a good idea either. µ

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