It looks like the government didn't quite tell the truth about the prisoner data loss after all.

The new Resource Accounts for 2008-2009 report from the Home Office offered a dramatically new estimation of how much data was lost by PA Consulting last year surprising many and leading a few to question if the government can adequately protect the personal data of its citizens.

Originally the Home Office claimed that when a USB was lost by PA Consulting it contained about 127,000 records of prisoner data information. However, in the new report the USB was revealed to actually have held the data of about 377,000 prisoners.

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