the UK under foreign espionage attack
foreign secret services snatching UK secret Data
The UK is losing at least one sensitive data storage medium per day-
440 device storing sensitive data including 217 laptop have been snatched from the
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE alone in a year.
Some of the major data loss in the UK :- MAY 2009: RAF PERSONNEL DATA:
data lost included 500 highly sensitive files, containing details of individuals' extra-marital affairs, debts and drug use.
- JANUARY 2009: PRISONER MEDICAL RECORDS:
a memory stick containing the medical details of more than 6,000 prisoners and ex-prisoners from HMP Preston.
- NOVEMBER 2008: GOVERNMENT COMPUTER PASSWORDS:
A memory stick - holding passwords for a government computer system - was found in the car park of a pub in Staffordshire.
- OCTOBER 2008: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE DATA:
A computer hard drive containing the personal details of about 100,000 of the Armed Forces and 600,000 potential recruits was reported missing.
- SEPTEMBER 2008: JUSTICE AND RAF EMPLOYEE DETAILS:
The government confirmed that a portable hard drive holding details of up to 5,000 employees of the justice system was lost.
Also this month, the MoD admitted that tens of thousands of personnel files had been lost from RAF Innsworth in Gloucestershire.
Hard disks containing the data,
were taken from a secure area.
AUGUST 2008: DATA ON CRIMINALS:
Home Office contractor PA Consulting admitted losing a computer memory stick containing information on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales.
It also held personal details of about 10,000 prolific offenders.
JULY 2008: MEMORY STICKS AND LAPTOPS:
The Ministry of Defence confirmed that 121 USB memory devices had been lost - five of which contained secret data. and 747 laptops had been stolen .
JUNE 2008: TERROR DOCUMENTS:
The seven-page file, classified as "UK Top Secret", contained a report entitled "Al-Qaeda Vulnerabilities" and an assessment of the state of Iraq's security forces was left on the seat of commuter train from London.
APRIL 2008: MCDONALD'S LAPTOP:
An Army captain's laptop was taken from under his chair as he ate in a McDonald's, near the Ministry of Defence's Whitehall headquarters.
JANUARY 2008: MILITARY RECRUITS:
A laptop computer belonging to a Royal Navy officer was stolen from car,
It contained the personal details of 600,000 people who had expressed an interest in, or applied to join, the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and the RAF.
The only logical explanation would be the presence of a foreign spies network that is snatching these devices for whatever purposes they have in mind.
The data lost would probably expose most of the UK's secrets to the foreign country behind the snatching.
Even though it's difficult to accuse a specific country of these spies attack, but the secret services powerful enough to do such attacks can be counted on the fingers of one hand (USA, Israel, Russia, France, China ).
Submitted by Edd
