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Managing director of Bord Gáis Energy Dave Bunworth said this morning the stolen laptop containing the account details of 75,000 customers would be “very difficult to get into” despite it not being encrypted.

“I don’t want to minimise the risk but this is not a normal laptop that you could break into that easily,” he told RTÉ radio.