Police Demand HMRC Foots Bill For Disc Search
News Scotland Yard will demand HM Revenue & Customs foots the record bill for the police force's hunt for the missing data discs containing 25 million child-benefit records. The Metropolitan Police has said it will seek full costs from HM Revenue...
[January 15, 2008, 7:46]
ID Card Database Plans Expand
News Until the NIR is up and running the Treasury said it should be a priority for HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions to look at short-term arrangements for wider use of the National Insurance number and ways to better...
[April 19, 2006, 15:45]
CIOs: UK Data Laws Unfit For Purpose
News The UK's data-protection laws have been branded "unfit for purpose" in the wake of the loss of CDs containing 25 million records by HM Revenue & Customs. In what is now emerging as the UK's biggest-ever data-security breach, HMRC admitted last week...
[November 26, 2007, 7:44]
ID Cards Under Fire After HMRC Debacle
News Two password-protected discs, containing the names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers and bank and building society account details of everybody in the UK who claims and receives child benefits, were lost in transit from HM...
[November 20, 2007, 17:48]
Lib Dems Brand 2007 'worst Ever Year' For Privacy
News This followed the loss by HM Revenue & Customs of two discs containing the details of some 25 million people, after officials had failed to follow the proper procedures for handling data. Losses include a laptop stolen from King's Mill Hospital in...
[January 8, 2008, 15:10]
Darling Blames Officials For Data Loss
News Chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling has said employees of HM Revenue & Customs were responsible for the loss of sensitive child-benefit data. The discs include benefit records affecting 25 million people and 7.5 million families, and...
[November 21, 2007, 7:16]
Scale Of Online Tax Credit Fraud Revealed
News More than half of the 40,000 suspicious tax credit applications detected by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) during a six-month period last year are believed to have been made by organised criminal gangs, new government figures have revealed.
[January 17, 2006, 8:35]
Lost Standard Life CD Was Unencrypted
News The CD was lost in transit between HM Revenue and Customs Service and financial services company Standard Life, and was unencrypted, HMRC revealed on Monday. The data contained on the disk included the surnames and initials of the individuals, as...
[November 6, 2007, 11:03]
Tax Credits Site To Stay Closed After Fraud
News The HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) portal was targeted by criminals who stole the identities and personal details of almost 13,000 staff at the Department for Work and Pensions and Network Rail and exploited poor security and ID checks to make...
[March 20, 2007, 9:51]
Watchdog: Protecting Data Is Not 'rocket Science'
News The loss by HM Revenue & Customs of two password-protected CDs containing 25 million personal details of those who claim and receive child benefits was a major blow for privacy, according to assistant information commissioner Jonathan Bamford.
[November 22, 2007, 13:43]
Government Loses 25m Confidential Records
News HM Revenue & Customs has admitted to losing the details of 25 million individuals, with 7.25 million UK families potentially affected. Details on the discs, which were only password protected, included names, addresses, dates of birth, national...
[November 20, 2007, 16:38]
Ministers Blamed Over £30m ID Fraud
News HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was warned about the flaw more than six months ago but only closed the tax credit portal down last week after it discovered criminals had used the identities of 1,500 civil servants at the Department of Work and...
[December 6, 2005, 7:55]
