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New Labour fuck up 1: Home Office disc found inside laptop bought on eBay


Not content with losing our data the fuckers are now flogging it on E-Bay!

One for the "you could not make it up file!"...

A confidential Home Office disc has been discovered inside a laptop which was bought on internet auction site eBay, it was revealed last night.

Police are investigating the find, which came after the laptop was taken in for service.

The find causes yet more embarrassment to the Government after a string of data security lapses.

Staff at Leapfrog Computers, in Westhoughton, near Bolton, were stunned when they found the disc hidden inside the laptop.


A Home Office spokeswoman stressed that the disc was encrypted so members of the public could not access its contents.

Lee Bevan, managing director of Leapfrog, told Sky News: "We put the disc in the drive to see what it was but it was encrypted.

"The actual disc was hidden inside the computer itself.

"They seized everything really - that has been taken away. Me and some of my staff were interviewed.

"Luckily it has ended up in the right hands."

A Home Office spokesman said: "We understand that encrypted IT equipment has been handed to Greater Manchester Police.

**The fact the data was encrypted is not the point, it just shows how poorly run the Home Office is run under New Labour.

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