Yesterday, the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security in Thailand has lost its databases when thief's stole several computers, including the hard discs containing the ministry's databases.

Khun Sora-At Klinpratoom, the Minister of the Social Development and Human Security from Thailand said that intruders entered the offices of the Minitry through the ceiling and stole 30 computers including their hard iscs containing Thailand's databases of the underprivileged, elderly and disabled persons in the Thai Kingdom.

This is the third time that equipment is stolen from the ministry's offices which are situated in the Sun Tower Building on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road in Bangkok, Thailand. The ministry pays monthly four million bath (US$ 106,000) rent for the ten floors it uses in the building but the owner of the building has refused to take any responsibility for the incidents, Minister Sora-At added.

The lack of security of the Vibhavadi Rangsit building has made the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security consider to move to another location after the rent contract expires in the month of October as the owner keeps refusing to increase the security system of the building.

Due to the first intrusions and theft of equipment, the ministry had increased the security by employing its own security guards on the 10 floors it rents. However, even this increased security has not prevented a third break-in this weekend when thief's climbed up to the 24th floor, where the Office of Welfare Promotion, Protection and Empowerment of Vulnerable Groups of Thailand are situated, and took off, through the ceiling, with 30 computers which included the hard disks containing all the ministry's databases.