The Australian Immigration department has reported the theft of hard drives containing hundreds of asylum seekers’ personal files to the Australian Federal Police for investigation.
Immigration chief Mike Pezzullo today said the department had received reports that a number of devices had gone missing from the offshore detention facility, as first reported by SBS in September and The Guardian Australian on Saturday.
The storage devices were reportedly not password protected and were stolen from inside an ‘unlockable’ tent on the island.
They are said to contain the individual files of hundreds of asylum seekers, including their medical histories, the details of their protection claims and accusations of mistreatment at the hands of detention centre operators.
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