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A VAR based in Westhoughton, near Manchester, has made front-page news by handing in a confidential Home Office data disk it discovered hidden in the body of a laptop that had been brought in for repair.
Leapfrog's Managing Director, Lee Bevan told Sky News: "This seemed just another IT repair. The customer said he had bought it on eBay and seemed quite innocent. It is just an ordinary laptop.
“It was only when we opened up the keyboard that we found the disc - it had the words Home Office and Confidential written all over it. We put it in the safe and contacted the police in London. They have been here most of the day examining the items and speaking to staff."
For once, they were both encrypted, but this will still be further embarrassment to the government as the latest in a spate of data disks going walk-abouts.
It’s not clear why the story took two days to come out. It must be assumed that Bevan didn’t speak to any media before today…surely.
