Dawlish News

A Dawlish man who found Hundreds of documents dumped on a roundabout in Exeter, Devon revealed that they contained sensitive personal data. They contained details of mortgage payments, benefit claims and passport photocopies. They were found on Thursday by Karl-Heinz Korzenietzat from Dawlish at a roundabout near Exeter Airport. The MOD have also said that a laptop with details of 600,000 people has been stolen from a Royal Navy officer in Birmingham last week.

Two months earlier, Mr Kornenietz said that he also found similar documents to the ones in Exeter. The matter is urgently being looked into by The Department of Work and Pensions.

Mr Korzenietz was seen on BBC News saying "When I came from Exeter Airport, I discovered lots of papers on the roundabout.".

"I thought first of all it was rubbish. But when I looked at the papers I discovered they were highly sensitive. "I was shocked and surprised that sensitive papers like this would just be lost like that."

The documents were found by Mr Korzenietz on November 6th and he took them to the Royal Mail depot in Exeter. Two weeks later the Royal Mail contacted him to say they had returned the material to TNT.

TNT have said they are not aware of any missing data, and that they are not the only provider of services for the government.

The Devon and Cornwall police will now collect the confidential material. This is yet another potential embarrassment for the government.

It was only last October when two discs which contained the entire child benefit database were lost in transit after being sent by HM Revenue and Customs to the National Audit Office without being encrypted or registered.