The following nuggets were reported in the IT press today. They tried to dress the loss up as the result of a 'technical fault', although it's difficult to see how someone walking into an office and lifting a laptop and then leaving the building can be classed as such. They've assured their staff that they treat the holding of their personal details very importantly. Clearly not important enough to encrypt the data and put in measures to prevent laptops being stolen from offices, in broad daylight in the middle to the working day.
Rest assured you're unlikely to see this latest loss of personal data be plastered all over their front pages with the vitriol they reserved for the Government and various NHS Trusts (not that I'm defending any of them)
However rest assured if it WAS on the front page the theft would be reported as the work of some Al Queda sympathising Armenian immigrant who was smuggled into Britain on the back of a Polish lorry on a ferry from Dover because of those lazy French customs officials couln't be bothered checking. It's a bloody liberty
Yes, Karma is indeed a bitch
