TV Schedule

Missing: 747 top secret computers

  2. Mulcahey
  3. related topics
Since 2004, the British Ministry of Defense has lost:
-89 laptops
-121 thumb drives
-23 desktops (since 1998)
-1 46-page document outlining the nation's response to a terrorist attack

Of the laptops, nine contained information classified as top secret or secret. To date of the 747 lost or stolen laptops in the past four years only 32 had been recovered.

Three of the lost USB drives contained information said to be "secret" with 19 additional ones containing information said to be "restricted."
Mulcahey

9 responses // Missing: 747 top secret computers

  • How hasn't this data ended up on the internet yet?
    phillyharper
  • It would seem that office theft at the MoD is not just limited to pens and pencil sharpeners.
    EclecticBadger
  • uh...that's just as bad as the accidental loss of private information here with laptops and such.

    There's no coincidences in these "mistakes". Who has the info and what will be done with it?

    Sad that it's not a tag line for a movie and that this is real life. -- far more exciting.
    J_Jammer
  • james bond needs to do his job and get the russian spys stealing this obviously.
    RudyRudell
  • Anything could be on these computers. But to steal a desktop? how'd they get away with that? An inside job I think!
    owner1
  • That one Apple employee who's house was broken into can get her system back but not the highest levels of intelligence service... were so screwed.
    parisinla
  • I wish the UK would stop emulating the USA...
    Vierotchka
  • Reminds me of the videogame "BLACK" where you destroy laptops containing military intelligence and dirty secrets.
    Dmitri_Molotov
  • The MoD does not just lose things, our countries state run establishments have more holes in than a siv. Espionage is not as clear as simply having something " lost " or " stolen " anymore.
    Kabimbi

Add your response

Login/Registration is required to add a response.