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Tafscot
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Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:44 am |
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This was reported ion Sky Neqws today, once again the company EDS have cocked things up?
By Sky News SkyNews - Friday, October 10 06:14 am
A computer hard drive with the private details of 100,000 Armed Forces personnel is missing, The Ministry of Defence has admitted.The hardware contains the names, addresses, passport numbers, dates of birth and driving licence details of serving personnel across the Army, Royal Navy and RAF, plus their next-of-kin details.
It also has data on 600,000 potential services applicants and the names of their referees.
Officials are "not ruling out" the risk that bank account details of personnel were held on the drive, which belonged to its IT contractor EDS.
The department said it learned of the loss on Wednesday and MoD Police were investigating.
The missing drive is the latest information security breach to hit the MoD.
In July, it admitted 658 of its laptops had been stolen over the past four years and 26 portable memory sticks containing classified information had been either stolen or misplaced since January.
The Liberal Democrats described the loss as a "disturbing breach of security" and called for an urgent inquiry into how it had occurred.
An MoD spokeswoman was unable to confirm reports that the missing data was not encrypted.
She said: "On Wednesday, October 8 we were informed by our contractor EDS that they were unable to account for a portable hard drive used in connection with the administration of Armed Forces personnel data.
"This came to light during a priority audit EDS are conducting to comply with the Cabinet Office data handling review.
"The MoD Police are investigating this matter with EDS |
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ranroz
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Sat Oct 11, 2008 2:45 pm |
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Would it NOT be better to put them on the street with a BIG sighn saying COME and get IT
Then they would NOT have to keep losing it They could just say "I left it ON THE STREET"
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Tafscot
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Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:38 pm |
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Come on now?? dont be silly?/ then they wpuld need to find out what street??  |
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