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Personal information for 600,000 current and former Time Warner employees has been lost, the company announced on Monday, potentially setting the stage for one of the largest cases yet of identity theft.
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Ministry of Defence staff have reported 87 USB data-storage devices containing classified data lost or stolen since 2004.
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