UK police investigate eBay sale of spy camera

Last year, a civil service worker in the UK lost computer discs containing sensitive information on 25 million people last year.

In January, the Ministry of Defense said it had lost a laptop containing personal data on 600,000 recruits.

Now there is another security breach.

Britain's MI6 intelligence service is investigating how a camera holding sensitive information about al Qaeda suspects came to be lost by one of its agents, police said on Tuesday.

Media reports said the Nikon digital camera was put up for sale on Internet trading site eBay and sold for just 17 pounds ($30.64).

Its memory had names of al Qaeda members, fingerprints and suspects' academic records as well as pictures of rocket launchers and missiles, the Sun newspaper reported.

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