Topic: British Military Laptop Is Stolen

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 19, 2008
LONDON - Britain's Defense Ministry said a laptop containing personal details of 600,000 new or prospective military recruits was stolen last week from a Royal Navy officer in Birmingham. The ministry said it was urgently writing to 3,500 people whose bank details were included.
It is the latest in a series of government blunders over data. In December, Britain's top transport official said a disk drive with personal information on three million driving test candidates had been lost in the United States.
Last fall, two computer disks from a tax and welfare department containing names, addresses, national insurance numbers and, in some cases, banking details, for 25 million people disappeared in the mail.
--AP