May I suggest that everyone who is currently serving and joined in the past 15-20 years might want to check whether their details were on that laptop.
Although the MOD said it would only affect those joining 2003 onwards, I joined in 1997 and for some inexplicable reason, someone decided it would be prudent to keep my OASC and IOT details (scores, entry dates etc) on this laptop for over 10 years.
The big question from my point of view is what have these details got to do with the 'personal' details such as names, addresses etc? Just what the hell was on this laptop that we aren't being told about - it seems there is all manner of data on it not simply what they said was there.
And I am not the only officer in my unit to have joined in the mid-late 90s who has found their details were on here. You have been warned!