Counter-intelligence organization, the Home Office, disclosed to The Register that among the data compromised in a series of 2015 breaches were “security vetting” documents, with a birth certificate “lost” in an unrelated breach. The data was "lost internally between the recipient of the postal package and the vetting team,” the agency said, emphasizing that "the contents had not been reviewed." These recent breaches are in addition to the agency’s 33 breaches from last year, “which were not reported to the Information Commissioner's Office, although the department has now claimed one incident was noted incorrectly,” the report states.
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