If some information goes missing (for example, because a schoolboy has amputated a leg), the output will change but it could still be meaningful.
In other words, this information goes missing.
"Too many times an act of carelessness or a security breach has led to information going missing, and in some cases businesses have found themselves in a position where the data is non-recoverable," a Microsoft spokesman told the BBC.
Mr. Hoffman said that the information apparently went missing two years ago in the offices of Roper ASW, the firm that conducted field work for the study, and that he was postponing the report's release until he could assess the damage.
This report shows that dozens of USB keys, although not necessarily carrying sensitive information, either went missing or were stolen from the departments of health, industry, aboriginal affairs, and natural resources.
Police have appealed for information after a mother went missing from hospital, leaving her newborn child behind.
On the day, due to an organisational error, vital information on administering the drug went missing and a consultant was not available to supervise the procedure.
That same month, a drive containing the personal information of 5,000 pensioners also went missing.
My cohorts and I headed into a crypt to find out more information about a necromancer who went missing a long time ago.
Houry, who is based in Beirut, says there are still Lebanese families, decades on, waiting for information on family members who went missing in Tadmor and other military prisons.
