Government calls for courier to explain document loss
Date: 28 January 2008
The government has called for a report into how courier firm TNT managed to lose documents containing personal details.
They were found earlier this month on a roundabout near Exeter by motorist Karl-Heinz Korzenientz, the BBC reports. He picked up the documents, which contained passport photocopies and benefit claims details.
Courier firm TNT said it regretted the loss of the documents, and former Secretary of State Peter Hain called for a "full and urgent report".
The Department of Work and Pensions said: "We have now recovered a number of documents following their loss from a TNT vehicle and we believe they constitute all the material that was lost.
"We have no reason to believe that any individuals' details have been misused. We take the security of individuals' data extremely seriously.
"As part of our own inquiry, we have asked TNT for a full and urgent report on all of the circumstances relating to the loss of this data."
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User Comments
TNT are not a courier company. They carry parcels about from hub to spoke and back again. A courier delivers what he collects in one go. Anybody else is a carrier. When will people get the message that couriers are expensive and good whilst carriers are cheap and rubbish.
Posted By: Mario Chappell on 04/02/2008 18:13:52