wire tap data base stolen

Police chiefs have launched a major investigation after the theft of a
computer database containing thousands of top-secret mobile phone records
from terrorism and organised crime investigations.

Scotland Yard is concerned that crucial evidence from undercover
investigations could be lost forever or has found its way into "the wrong
hands" after the computer and other IT equipment disappeared from a private
firm in Sevenoaks, Kent, last Monday night after a break-in.

Forensic Telecommunications Services, whose clients include Scotland Yard,
The Police Service of Northern Ireland, HM Revenue and Customs and the
Crown Prosecution Service, specialises in tapping mobile phone calls made
by criminal suspects. The stolen security-protected server contained the
minutiae of phone calls it had screened, including the identity of the
person who had made the call, as well as the exact time and location of the
suspect when the call was made.

In a statement released to The Mail on Sunday, Forensic Telecommunications
Services confirmed that the equipment had been stolen from its offices but
denied that its disappearance would impact negatively on current police
cases.



Link:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2856892.ece