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Originally from scmagazineuk.com.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted that it has lost 340 laptops in the past two years with less than half having encrypted data.
In a response to a Freedom of Information request by Lewis PR, the MoD revealed that 120 laptops were stolen and 220 were lost. Only 25 were recovered. Also, [...]

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An investigation is under way into the disappearance of a computer hard drive which could contain the details of about 100,000 Armed Forces personnel.

The hard drive was being held by EDS, which is the Ministry of Defence’s main IT contractor.

Armed forces recruits from the “Facebook generation” do not take data security seriously enough, a Ministry of Defence security probe has found.

Young recruits were used to the “rapid and often uninhibited exchange of information”, the report added.

Tougher rules aimed at keeping people’s personal records private are to be introduced in government departments.

Civil service chief Sir Gus O’Donnell said there had to be a “fundamental change in culture” among staff handling people’s personal information.

There have been a variety of cases where confidential information has been lost or stolen.

Several laptops containing sensitive data have gone missing and files marked Top Secret have been left on a commuter train.