Daily Mail loses staff information on stolen laptop

Sensitive data included names, addresses and bank account details

Criminal "may just erase what is on the hard disk to disguise theft"

The owner of tabloid Daily Mail lost a laptop containing sensitive employee data including names, addresses and bank account information.

Northcliffe Media has reportedly said that the computer contained information of Daily Mail and General Trust workers, who have been informed of the theft, as has the police and the information commissioner.