Some 200 people have been affected by the theft of documents and a laptop from a car last month.
Two hundred officers and staff of the Police Service of Northern Ireland were not informed of the theft of personal data from a senior commander's car for a month, police have admitted.
In response to questions from BBC News NI, police said news of the security breach in Newtownabbey was relayed to affected individuals on 4 August.A document containing the names of officers and staff was taken along with a police issue laptop on 6 July. The officer, a superintendent, remains in post while the subject of an investigation into the loss from a car parked outside a retail complex.
This data breach is one of two such leaks affecting data about the employees of the Police Service of Northern Ireland .
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