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23 Nov 2006
Three laptops containing the payroll details of over 15,000 police officers have been stolen from the offices of Logica CMG.
Personal details of over half the entire Metropolitan Police force were on the laptops. Logica CMG handles pay and pensions for the force.
One man has been arrested in Southwark and charged with burglary. The police said that the thefts took place last Thursday but have only now come to light. It is not known whether the laptops or the information they contained were encrypted.
A police spokesman said that the chances of officers being affected were " minimal" but that the force was in contact with UK fraud prevention service Cifas, UK payments trade association Apacs, and credit reference agencies.
Logica CMG recently won a seven-year contact to handle police pay and pensions and beefed up the security in its offices to prevent this kind of data loss. The company has offered an unreserved apology to the force.
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Our data and IDs
So we have to pay for the ID Card because every man and his dog has our details and takes more care over their dog droppings than our data. The Govt. refused to open up the register of the deceased so the Financial Sector could check whether fraudsters were using the IDs of the dead. They refused. So how many criminals are using the details of the dead to stay here illegally, commit fraud and prepare acts of terrorism, or all three?
Posted by: alastair warren 23 Nov 2006