Well, it's happened again. A contracting company working for the government have "lost" the records of habitual criminals.

The Government has been accused of complacency over its handling of personal information after laying the blame for the latest loss of sensitive data squarely at the door of an external contractor.
Home Office Minister Tony McNulty said the loss of a computer memory stick containing the details of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales was "unforgivable". But the breach of data security rules was the fault of PA Consulting, not officials in his department, he said.
"It wasn't me it was the cat wot done it"

"What we are very clear about is that all the security protocols, as I understand it, were maintained by the Home Office in terms of the encryption of data and passing the data on in encrypted form. That has been downloaded not in encrypted form and that's where the breach appears to have happened."
"Some of them won't never learn"

Article here:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20...s-6323e80.html

And these guys legislate security best practices for us?