The British Council appear to have had an encrypted disk lost in the post. The BBC think this is news but don't appear to understand that nothing appears to have been done wrong.

This appears to be a courier service losing a securely encrypted disk during a routine information transfer. At which point this isn't newsworthy, it's something done right and nothing has been leaked.

Of course there's the possibility that it was the only copy or that the key/password was shipped with the data which would be a minor disaster but these possibilities aren't mentioned.

The author goes on to claim

I have visions of the missing disk being fiercely guarded by a beermat with a quick-sort scribbled on the back that has somehow come to life. I guess it takes special training to remove all the useful information and spout the utterly meaningless.

I wonder what the same journalist would make of the number of encrypted TCP packets that go missing every day without the world exploding.