84,000 Records Lost On Flash Drive
A consultant for PA Consulting copied files containing records on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales onto a USB drive, which then got lost.
Although the government does actually have rather strict rules about how such data should be stored and managed, and downloading it from secure servers onto thumbdrives or CDs isn’t allowed, but the fact that it keeps happening suggests that either no one is paying attention, or that the procedures for handling sensitive data aren’t working.