Via guardian.co.uk -
The Government was under fire for yet another data breach after revealing a Royal Navy officer's laptop containing the details of 600,000 people has been stolen.
The Tories immediately called for answers as to how more data had gone missing from Government hands while the Liberal Democrats' dubbed the incident "very embarrassing".
The British Armed Forces Federation (BAFF) said the fact that the laptop appeared to have been left in a car overnight "spoke volumes" and called for a top-level inquiry into the incident.
And one information expert said he was "flabbergasted" at the security lapse and claimed it rivalled the child benefit data loss from HM Revenue and Customs last year.
The laptop was stolen from the officer in Birmingham on the night of January 9 and reported the following morning, but the theft was only revealed on Friday night by the Ministry of Defence when the news began to leak.
It contained personal information from people who had joined up to the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force and from people who had expressed an interest in joining. Entries on the computer included passport details, National Insurance numbers, drivers' licence details, family details, doctors' addresses and NHS numbers, the MoD said.
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