West Midlands police are investigating the theft of a laptop from a Royal Navy officer which held the personal details of 600,000 people.
Police said the laptop was taken from a vehicle parked overnight in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham.
The laptop contains data including passport numbers, National Insurance numbers and bank details.
They relate to people who had expressed an interest in, or joined, the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and the RAF.
Last November, it emerged that 25m child benefit records had been lost after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sent two unregistered and unencrypted discs to the National Audit Office.
The MoD said it was treating this latest theft with the "utmost seriousness".
The police said they received a report that the laptop had been stolen from a car parked in Edgbaston on 10 January.
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1 comment:
But, the govt says, we can trust them with our data. The he11 we can.
I also thought that losing laptops with sensitive data was the job of the SIS (MI6)?
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