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Home Office loses more data

Leaks like sieve
Fri Aug 22 2008, 09:54

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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Now heres Justice

I say we "intentionally" lose these all over Nigeria, Russia, China and Spammaria. Using our known to flush out birds of a feather.

posted by : Alementary Watson, 26 August 2008 Complain about this comment
It could be worse ...

... maybe. http://notnews.today.com/?p=36

posted by : David Gerard, 25 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Pay the criminals...

Anyone read about the follow up news? You poor guys in UK are likely to cough up a lot of tax money for compensation.

Anyone in for a conspiracy? The stick wasn't lost by accident but on purpose so that some criminal master mind can pick and bust out the "good" guys for his next heist.

posted by : Christopher Lee Thomas, 22 August 2008 Complain about this comment
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