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Home Office prisoner data breach: Bigger blunder than first thought

Missing USB stick contained extra data

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By silicon.com

Published: 27 August 2009 17:30 GMT

Remember the massive data loss last year that saw the records of more than 84,000 prisoners go missing when a USB stick was lost by a Home Office contractor?

More details on the loss have emerged this week, with the Home Office's resource accounts revealing the amount of data lost could be much larger than first thought.

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The Home Office (pictured here) announced the data loss last year (photo credit: .Martin. via Flickr.com under the following Creative Commons licence)

ZDNet UK has the full story on the Home Office data loss.

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