A disk which a tabloid said carries personal details on some 100,000 serving British military personnel is lost, the Ministry of Defense said Friday.

The military acknowledged a report in The Sun newspaper that contractor EDS lost track of a portable hard drive, but said it could not comment on the claim that it restricted names, addresses, passport numbers and driver’s license info of service personnel along with notes on 600,000 potential recruits.

“We don’t know what’s on

it, and we don’t even know whether there’s anything on it,” a ministry of defense spokesman said, speaking anonymously in line with military policy.

A government mandated documents safety measure review was unable to explanation for the disk, according to EDS UK, the British subsidiary of Plano, Texas-based EDS. It said the disk was being stored at its secure facility in Hook, a town about 45 miles west of London when it went […]

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