Confidential information on thousands of criminals lost / Independent, Friday, 22 August 2008

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/confidential-information-on-thousands-of-criminals-lost-905547.html

"Sensitive details of thousands of criminals have been lost in the latest major data breach to engulf the Government. The Conservatives accused ministers of a "massive failure of duty" after it emerged that a memory stick containing details from the Government's secure system for tracking high-profile criminals had been lost by a firm working for the Home Office."