This is bad: international police investigation compromised by the loss of a USB memory stick
What the heck were they doing storing such data on something so easy to lose???
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19588463^15306^^nbv^,00.html
"The details of 3500 customers from 18 banks, including names and account numbers, were lost when a classified computer dossier on Russian mafia "phishing" scams was misplaced by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre in April last year."
The memory stick was not encrypted or password protected 