The data of 3.7 million Hong Kong voters has been potentially compromised after a Registration and Electoral Office said two laptops were missing from a locked room in its backup voting venue, the South China Morning Post reports. The compromised information could include voters' ID card numbers, mobile phone numbers, and addresses, as well as data on the 1,200 electors who voted in favor of Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Hong Kong's newly elected chief executive. A spokesman from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said the electoral office “stressed that the data had been encrypted" and since the theft involves so many potential victims, the office would launch a probe. (Registration may be required to access this story.) 
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