Paper personnel files go missing from Europol's Hague office
Paper personnel files went missing from Europol's office in The Hague, the Netherlands. The loss of the personnel files emerged as a serious security breach.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Europol
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Paper personnel files lost
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- Netherlands
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Timeline
- It emerged that paper personnel files had gone missing from Europol's Hague office.
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