Britain’s Home Secretary has come under fire after 150,000 arrest records were accidentally deleted from the database that shares mission-critical information between police and criminal justice services across the country. The files were wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) last week due to an error, rather than a deliberate cyber hack, in a mass erasure of biometric data such as DNA and fingerprints, the Times of London reported on Friday. The Times later reported that up to 400,000 records may have been deleted. The opposition Labour Party reacted strongly to the initial data loss report. Writing on Twitter, Labour’s shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to “show some overdue leadership and account for yet another terrible error on her watch.” He also called on the government to “come clean about the causes and scale of this security breach.” In a video posted on the …