Personal data of 380,000 welfare recipients stolen

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0812/1218477342243.html

THE DEPARTMENT of Social and Family Affairs is contacting 380,000 social 
welfare recipients after it emerged their personal details were stored on 
a laptop computer which was stolen more than a year ago.

About 100,000 of the records contained bank account details of welfare 
recipients.

Information relating to these welfare recipients was stored on a computer 
used by the Comptroller and Auditor General at a Department of Social and 
Family Affairs office on Dublin's Pearse Street in April 2007.

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