The personal details of more than 140 vulnerable pensioners were found on an unencrypted data stick dropped in Oxford city centre.
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The memory stick contained details, including names, addresses and telephone numbers of all the clients of Cornmarket Street-based Oxford Aunts, which provides private nursing care to dozens of elderly and infirm clients across the south of England.
Many of them require live-in help from Oxford Aunts because they are suffering a terminal illness or dementia.
Among the firm’s clients are peers of the realm and some of Britain’s most eminent scientists, academics, educationalists and political commentators. More than 50 live in Oxfordshire.
The data stick also included payroll details and the names and addresses of hundreds of company employees.
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