The UK military has allegedly been involved in another data bungle, according to a report in daily newspaper The Telegraph, which says sensitive information had again been lost when a laptop went missing.

The report, quoting an unnamed source, says the laptop contained names of SAS soldiers and their training exercises and counter-terrorism manoeuvres.

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The MoD, however, has denied the computer contained sensitive information about weapons or operations and instead said all information on the hard drive was ‘unclassified’.

It allegedly went missing during a training exercise and the source said it had not been encrypted.

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