They are called intelligence agents?

[FromTheSouth]

The Sunday Times
British Spy Loses Top Secret Information in a Handbag

Sunday, April 26, 2009

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A British agent left top secret information about covert operations on a bus in South America when she lost her handbag while on assignment.

The drugs liaison officer lost a computer memory stick said to contain a list of undercover agents’ names and details with more than five years of intelligence work.

It happened when the MI6-trained agent left her handbag on a transit coach at El Dorado airport in Bogota, Colombia. Intelligence chiefs were forced to wind up operations and relocate dozens of agents and informants amid fears the device could fall into the hands of drugs barons.

The agent's employer, the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Saturday confirmed the data loss but said it had happened soon after the agency had been set up in 2006, "while staff were still working to the data-handling policies of precursor agencies."

I am going to avoid sexist jokes here.

It scares me that sensitive information can be lost in this way. This woman lost her purse, and put the lives of hundreds in danger. I wonder if any of this information that was lost could have been used to save lives on the US/Mexico border. Scary stuff.

 

[Miko]

Eh, those idiots lose data all the time

 

[Spunky]

It's the new "I've smoked pot in the past".

 

[Deexter Jorgan]

there was a case when home office officers left top secret information outside a motor way, paperwork was scattered everywhere, the fact that these idiots are even imployed scares the crap out of me but it happens i guess

 

[Hyorinmaru]

that made me laugh

 

[BradTheGreat]

"The Serious Organised Crime Agency"

with an intimidating name like that, i'm sure the bad guys would simply hand the lost purse into the authorities.

super serious!

 

[Uncle Sam]