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A laptop and a laptop bag containing documents with ‘employee information’ were stolen from Oldham Council over the weekend, it is reported.

The theft follows an incident in January 2009 when a person wandered into Oldham Civic Centre and walked out again, apparently unchallenged, wheeling 17 council laptops in a recycling bin.

Council staff were reportedly told the information stolen in the latest breach was ‘limited to names, job titles and salaries of a number of employees’  and that the risk of misuse was ‘minimal’.

Source: Manchester Evening News, 3 March 2010.