"Mr. Hubris? Call from Mr. Nemesis on line two."

There aren't enough shades of ironic to cover this one:

Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers has admitted that a laptop containing financial and personal details of thousands of staff, suppliers and contributors has been stolen.

After months of criticising "criminally careless" government departments for losing confidential records, the company has been forced to send out an embarrassing letter telling journalists they may now be at risk of identity theft, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.

There's a silver lining to all this — they can re-use all the headlines like this one:

Hard to disagree, isn't it?