US government loses national security data

The US government has admitted it has no idea where hundreds of employees' laptop computers, containing data about the country's national security, have gone.

Around 400 laptops have gone missing from the US Justice Department's stock tracking system along with almost 800 weapons.

The department has estimated that at least half of the computers contain sensitive information of national security and law enforcement information.

Some missing weapons were recovered by the department after they were seized from criminals using them in armed raids, Glenn Fine the Department's inspector general stated.

Bad paper work continuity has been blamed for the losses.