Passport office had 100 data breaches

32 passports were also sent to the wrong addresses last year

The Passport Service reported almost 100 data breaches to the Data Protection Commission last year, including more than 30 instances where passports were sent to the wrong addresses.

However, the service insists that the breaches represent a tiny fraction of its total workload and notes that steps are being taken to minimise any such issues of data and personal documents being misplaced or lost.