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Shadowcrew members sentenced
Blog I wonder whose hands the 25 million personal details HMRC lost are in now? The BBC has reported that four Britons have been sentenced for their role in a criminal network stealing personal data. I had a very interesting chat with ex-confidence...
[December 20, 2007, 15:46]
'Information Security Awareness Forum' is launched
News These included the HMRC breach, where 25 million personal details were lost, and the TJX breach, where up to 96 million credit-card details were compromised. An organisation has been launched to promote security awareness in the wake of the...
[February 12, 2008, 16:40]
What did he know then?
Talkback Pity it wasn't circulated around the HMRC I see Richard Thomas comments about public concern regarding personal data was published on 16/11 - presumably he made this as late as 15/11? The personal data of 25 Million people went missing earlier this...
[November 21, 2007, 10:16]
IT industry split over data-breach penalties
News Joseph Hoban, vice president at data-protection software company GuardianEdge, said: "With more public-sector data breaches on the horizon, the government must act now to avoid a certain repeat of the HMRC debacle.
[January 7, 2008, 8:10]
Simplistic
Talkback It does however keep the HMRC happy, which, with the powers they have, is a Very Good Thing. MSCs are used by many as a way of getting someone else to do the massive quantities of paperwork involved in running your own company.
[January 22, 2007, 15:52]
Privacy watchdog cracks down on NHS breaches
News The ICO was granted powers to perform spot checks in 2007 following a data breach by HMRC. The Information Commissioner's Office is putting pressure on the NHS to improve data security at its facilities, following a string of breaches.
[May 26, 2009, 16:32]
Novell MD on getting along with Microsoft
News We've got HMRC, the Ministry of Justice, ITV, and a long list of customers who we are working with, on either Red Hat migration or proprietary migrations. Novell has so far managed to weather global economic uncertainty — at a cost of about 100...
[February 18, 2009, 12:21]
Daily Mail loses hacks' personal details
Blog When the Daily Mail described the loss of a Ministry of Defence laptop in January, it called the situation a "huge embarrassment to the MoD" and the "latest in a string of data blunders", while its headline for the HMRC data breach screamed "Mind...
[July 7, 2008, 16:40]
Driving Standards Agency overhauls security
News Recent reports of data losses include the loss of three laptops by the Ministry of Defence containing personal details of 600,000 recruits, the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, and HMRC's loss of 25 million child benefit...
[March 31, 2008, 9:42]
Lords backs amendment to data-loss law
News The issue of public data loss shot into the public eye with HMRC's loss of 25 million people's details on two CDs, which sparked a host of revelations about missing data in government. Losing personal data took a step closer to becoming a criminal...
[April 29, 2008, 8:10]
Gov't faces backlash over e-Borders travel database
News The centre will be run by the UK Identity and Passport Service, with input from HMRC, MI5, MI6, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and the police. Both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have attacked the UK government over the...
[February 9, 2009, 15:21]
Justice minister urges overhaul of gov't data handling
News The justice minister's comments were made in light of a number of reports on government data losses published on Wednesday, including a review of the HMRC loss of 25 million child-benefit claimant details by PricewaterhouseCoopers chair Keiron...
[June 25, 2008, 18:03]
ICO urges gov't to retain data-theft laws
News Recent reports of government data losses include the loss of three laptops by the Ministry of Defence containing personal details of 600,000 recruits, the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, and HMRC's loss of 25 million child...
[April 2, 2008, 9:30]
'Reckless' data loss made a civil offence
News The issue of public data loss shot into the public eye with the HMRC's loss of 25 million people's details on two CDs, which sparked a host of revelations about missing data in government and business.
[May 13, 2008, 9:34]
iPhones could be used for citizen ID
News I got 17 pieces of spam this morning telling me to logon to HMRC and give my tax details. Smartphones could identify citizens for access to official services, the government has said in a review of new technologies for public ID.
[October 15, 2009, 14:24]
Digital Identity Management review
Reviews What it didn't predict, of course, is the uncertainty generated by the recent loss of the HMRC discs. In Digital Identity Management, David Birch, founder and CEO of electronic transaction specialist Consult Hyperion, has pulled together...
[November 30, 2007, 11:15]
Cabinet minister loses PC
News The incident is the latest in a long line of government data breaches, including the loss of 25 million details of child-benefit claimants by HMRC last year. Secretary for local government Hazel Blears has had a computer stolen from her...
[June 17, 2008, 18:24]
Norwich Union Life fined £1.26m for data loss
News Breaches such as the HMRC's loss of two discs affected 25 million people, while Leeds Building Society recently lost sensitive data relating to workers' payslips, and this month, the DVLA compromised 6,000 drivers after losing their sensitive...
[December 17, 2007, 12:31]
Experts urge criminal charges for data breaches
News Erroll gave the example of the lost HMRC child-benefit CDs, as it remains unknown whether anyone ever found the discs, let alone used them for any nefarious purposes. A former deputy information commissioner has called for failure to comply with...
[July 3, 2008, 17:17]
Brown pumps funds into espionage tech
News It will be interesting to see whether the [Forum's] remit extends to address the recent spate of data-breach cases, like the HMRC and NHS data losses, and if it extends to all the various agencies and departments that hold sensitive data," said...
[March 19, 2008, 17:37]
