Laptop with secret info sold on eBay

LONDON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A British computer repair technician says he found highly confidential government data on a disc inside a laptop purchased over eBay.

Lee Bevan, managing director of Leapfrog Computers near Bolton, said a customer brought a laptop into the repair shop and "in between the keyboard and the circuit board we found a CD that said, 'Home Office, highly confidential.'"

Bevan said he called the police and officers from the Counter Terror Command took the equipment, Sky News reported.

The incident follows a number of embarrassing losses of information by government departments in recent months with personal information on millions of Britons missing.