ID contractor denounced over data loss | Politics | The Guardian
The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, yesterday denounced the consultancy firm involved in the development of the ID cards scheme for “completely unacceptable” practice after losing a memory stick containing the personal details of all of the 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales.
The memory stick contained unencrypted information from the electronic system for monitoring offenders through the criminal justice system, including information about 10,000 of the most persistent offenders.
Yesterday, Smith moved to distance the government from the data loss, the latest in a series of security breaches since the high-profile loss in November 2007 of two CDs containing child benefit details of 25 million individuals.
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