The UK Home Office has suspended its contract with PA Consulting after a memory stick containing information on 84,000 criminals went missing, reports vnunet.com.
The data was part of a program to track prolific offenders through the criminal justice system. ZDNet also reports one PA Consulting employee has been suspended and an investigation is under way to determine what happened to the lost device.
That story says the data was unencrypted, but a BBC story has Home Secretary Jacqui Smith saying the data was “held securely,” but downloading it was unauthorized. Anyway, the Tories are having a field day, accusing ministers of a “massive failure of duty.”
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