The UK Ministry of Justice has admitted nine data-breach incidents, affecting around 45,000 people.

In one case MoJ disks containing 27,000 supplier records, including supplier names, addresses and, in some cases, bank details, were given to a Ministry contractor. The data was handed over to a newspaper but all the data was subsequently recovered or destroyed.

There were eight other MoJ incidents to the Information Commissioner's Office during the last financial year. Three involved the loss of laptops one of which contained data on 14,000 fine defaulters. It was inadequately protected and was lost within secured government premises.

Another incident involved a laptop lost outside government offices, and affected only 13 people, all applicants for judicial office.

The DoJ was the worst offender for data losses. The next was Department for Work and Pensions, which revealed three data losses, all of names, addresses and national-insurance numbers, affecting in total more than 16,800 people. X

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