Get our daily email briefing straight to your inbox Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailConfidential data might have fallen into dangerous hands after 316 electronic devices were lost by top Government officials. In 2018, 89 electronic items went walkabout, rising to 163 in 2019. And despite Covid-19, a further 64 items have been lost this year, according to figures released to the Sunday Mirror under Freedom of Information laws. In 2007, the Government said it had lost the data of 25 million people after computer discs vanished. And in 2017, a USB stick with details of the Queen’s security and Heathrow was found by a member of the public.

Source: Daily Mirror July 11, 2020 20:07 UTC