A Home Office representative said: “Greater Manchester Police Forensics team
has confirmed that the laptop’s hard drive has been wiped and that the disc was
encrypted.”
Jonathan Parry, senior sales manager at
Leapfrog
Computers, said: “You can only guess there was
sensitive information on the hard drive, which would suggest why it was wiped.”
VAR
finds lost Whitehall data stashed in laptop
Home Office calls cleaners
The Home Office is remaining tight-lipped over the missing disc which was recently discovered in a laptop handed in for repair at VAR Leapfrog Computers.
CRN, 20 Mar 2008
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