Home Office data loss 377,000 records

Glyn Wintle, 27 August 2009

The Home Office has confirmed that the volume of data on a lost memory stick was much larger than originally reported.

Its resource-accounts for 2008-09 show that 377,000 records were on the device, lost in August 2008 by contractor PA Consulting. The department had previously said the lost memory stick held information on 127,000 people.

A spokesperson told GC News that the extra 250,000 is data on uses of the Drug Interventions Programme. ...

Source: ZDNet