Loss of RAF data could lead to blackmail

the data "provides excellent material for Foreign Intelligence Services and blackmailers".

Data that includes criminal convictions, details of debt, drug abuse, use of prostitutes, and extra-marital affairs of RAF officials who may have access to top secret information. BBC

Last September the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said data on tens of thousands of personnel were lost from RAF Innsworth in Gloucestershire.

Some 500 files with details of affairs, debt and drug use were also lost, BBC Two's Who's Watching You? will say.[...]

It was said the discs the MoD admitted to losing were taken from a secure area, and included names, addresses and some bank account details.

Vetting is the process of assessing an individual for higher security clearance.

An internal MoD memo - obtained by a former officer and passed to BBC Two's Who's Watching You? programme - shows the lost files contained "details of criminal convictions, investigations, precise details of debt, medical conditions, drug abuse, use of prostitutes, extra-marital affairs including the names of third parties".