Urgent inquiry as more personal data missing in Britain

Source: yahoo news

LONDON (AFP) - An urgent inquiry was underway in Britain on Sunday after a disc containing the personal details of 5,000 justice staff went missing in yet another embarrassing data loss blunder. ADVERTISEMENT

Those affected are employees of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), who may include many prison officers.

"We believe nearly all of this data related to financial information -- for example, invoices from Prison Service suppliers," said a Ministry of Justice spokeswoman.
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PA Consulting informed the Home Office earlier last week that a computer memory stick which also contained information about thousands of prolific criminals was lost by the contractor.

The memory stick contained data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales, as well as information from the Police National Computer of around 30,000 people with six or more convictions.

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holy crap these people are incompetent! Why is this stuff going out of the building?

crap was confined to our corrupt government. Oh wait a sec. It's Britain. Double Crap.

It's part of the reason why Gordon Brown and Labour are unpopular. And to think that the UK government at the present time wishes to introduce ID cards!