Ireland: Personal information lost

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=86401&pt=n

Personal details of up to 60,000 people have been lost by Citizens Advice, 
it was revealed today.

Bank account numbers, National Insurance numbers, names, addresses and 
dates of birth were on a laptop stolen from a staff member`s car in 
Belfast earlier this week.

The details are of people who have sought advice from the bureau - but it 
said they were encrypted and the bureau claimed it was unlikely it could 
be accessed.

Derek Alcorn, chief executive of CAB Northern Ireland, apologised to all 
of those whose could be affected.

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