Details of 50,000 UK soliders stolen from military base

Three portable hard drives have gone missing from RAF Innsworth in Gloucestershire, in another damaging data theft by the Ministry of Defence in the UK.

The external drives contain personal appraisals of serving soldiers and veterans including their names, service numbers, addresses and dates of birth. The data  included personal appraisals of serving soldiers and veterans including their names, service numbers, addresses and dates of birth.

No mention was made regarding any security measures such as encryption or theft recovery software.