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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9725

26 August 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 11 / 20
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Further data breach in UK

Brussels, 25/08/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 21 August, the UK Home Office admitted that files containing information on all prisoners in England and Wales, 84,000 in total, had been lost. A computer memory stick, which contained prisoners' names and dates of birth, was lost by private contractor PA Consulting. The addresses of 33,000 individuals with six or more convictions were lost, along with information on 10,000 offenders regarded as prolific. In July, the Ministry of Defence...