"Forces personnel hard drive missing
A computer hard drive with the private details of Armed Forces personnel is missing, The Ministry of Defence said.
The portable drive contains the names, addresses, passport numbers, dates of birth and driving licence details of around 100,000 serving personnel across the Army, Royal Navy and RAF, plus their next-of-kin details, an MoD spokeswoman said.
It also has data on 600,000 potential services applicants and the names of their referees.
Officials are "not ruling out" the risk that bank account details of personnel were held on the drive, which belonged to its IT contractor EDS.
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I don't have much more detail but I'd like to know why so much data was on an external RHDD, if its encrypted iaw current policy and why given the amount of data (which must increase its PM) it wasn't stored/accounted for correctly.
A similar breach led to PA losing their Government contract, can we now hope to see similar action taken against EDS (an HP Company), if not, WHY? If this was a serviceperson they would be court martialled and hung out to dry!
A computer hard drive with the private details of Armed Forces personnel is missing, The Ministry of Defence said.
The portable drive contains the names, addresses, passport numbers, dates of birth and driving licence details of around 100,000 serving personnel across the Army, Royal Navy and RAF, plus their next-of-kin details, an MoD spokeswoman said.
It also has data on 600,000 potential services applicants and the names of their referees.
Officials are "not ruling out" the risk that bank account details of personnel were held on the drive, which belonged to its IT contractor EDS.
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I don't have much more detail but I'd like to know why so much data was on an external RHDD, if its encrypted iaw current policy and why given the amount of data (which must increase its PM) it wasn't stored/accounted for correctly.
A similar breach led to PA losing their Government contract, can we now hope to see similar action taken against EDS (an HP Company), if not, WHY? If this was a serviceperson they would be court martialled and hung out to dry!