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Over 600 HMRC Staff Disciplined For Data Breaches
News HM Revenue & Customs has had to discipline over 600 staff since 2005 over data-protection incidents, according to Treasury financial secretary Jane Kennedy. Kennedy revealed on Wednesday in a written answer to parliamentary questions that 238 staff...
[May 1, 2008, 14:38]
HMRC Site Crashes On Last Day For Filing Tax Returns
News HM Revenue & Customs has been forced to extend the deadline for filing self-assessment tax returns online after its website crashed due to the number of people trying to file their returns before the 31 January deadline.
[February 1, 2008, 10:25]
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]
HMRC Fiasco: Security Experts Predict Fallout
News The loss by HM Revenue & Customs of 25 million child-benefit claimant records has understandably sparked a host of reactions from security and legal experts. Indeed, it is the third major data leakage from HM Revenue & Customs in just three months.
[November 23, 2007, 10:29]
HMRC Letters Of Apology Cost £2.25m
News The government has admitted it cost £2.25m to send letters of apology to people affected by the loss of 25 million child-benefit records by HM Revenue & Customs. The seven-figure bill provoked outrage from the TaxPayer's Alliance, which attacked HM...
[January 18, 2008, 7:19]
HMRC Named 'internet Villain' Of The Year
News HM Revenue & Customs was named as "internet villain" of the year by the Internet Services Providers' Association on Friday. This year, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) won the villain award for losing millions of citizens' personal data.
[March 17, 2008, 10:36]
HMRC Signs Airwave Deal In Fight Against Fraud
News HM Revenue & Customs is spending £60m on a secure communications system to help in its crackdown on fraudsters and smugglers. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed a 15-year deal to provide its criminal-investigation and detection teams with the...
[February 14, 2008, 7:47]
Goverment Inks Two Microsoft Megadeals
Talkback "The software giant has inked contracts with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the largest government department, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which is planning a move to Windows XP despite a minor Windows upgrade knocking out 80,000...
[July 28, 2005, 19:59]
Tax Office IT Chief Is In The Money
News The annual pay packet of HM Revenue & Customs' IT chief rocketed by over 20 percent to almost £260,000 after just six months in the role. Lamey, previously a director at BOC and CIO at British Gas, took over the HMRC job from the Inland Revenue's...
[August 15, 2006, 16:35]
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. Darling confirmed that two discs containing details on about 25 million people had been lost in...
[November 21, 2007, 7:16]
Even The Government
Talkback Having read this article I'm pleased to say that HM Revenue & Customs (my employer), a government dept still in many areas lagging in the dark ages, is in the process of a huge deployment of Documentum eRoom, a collaboration/communication...
[April 3, 2007, 9:40]
Capgemini Cashes In With Government IT Project
News Profits from its contract with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are providing Capgemini with an early Christmas present, according to a member of the Committee of Public Accounts The costs of HMRC's outsourced IT programme, known as Aspire, have...
[December 21, 2006, 7:22]
HMRC Loses Thousands Of Pensioners' Details
News The details were lost at an office of HM Revenue & Customs in Cardiff after a data cartridge went missing in September, an HMRC spokesperson said on Tuesday. Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs has admitted losing the personal details of over 6,500...
[December 18, 2007, 17:02]
ID Cards: Data-protection Minister Calls For Review
News Speaking at a joint House of Commons and House of Lords select committee on human rights, the data-protection minister Michael Wills admitted he was not informed about the data breach at HM Revenue & Customs before Alistair Darling's public...
[November 28, 2007, 8:07]
IT Fault Causes Millions To Pay Incorrect Tax
News HM Revenue & Customs has promised to fix its computer systems after it was found to have incorrectly taxed up to five million UK citizens. The report by the National Audit Office (NAO) found that up to £880m in pay as you earn (Paye) taxes had not...
[April 3, 2008, 8:41]
HMRC Appoints Data Guardians
News HM Revenue & Customs has appointed 37 staff to protect information, since it lost personal records on 25 million people last November. Each HMRC business unit has appointed a data guardian, "to strengthen the management of the department's data...
[February 29, 2008, 9:18]
Ministry Of Justice Loses Four CDs Of Personal Data
News The Ministry of Justice incident joins a steadily lengthening list of reported government data loss within recent months, including the loss by the MoD of three unencrypted laptops containing sensitive information on over 600,000 actual and...
[January 23, 2008, 12:33]
Treasury Denies New Tax On PCs
News The Conservative Party is expected to table an amendment to the Finance Bill on Wednesday asking HM Revenue & Customs to issue a guidance note clarifying the situation. Reversing exemptions on personal use of office computers will do nothing to...
[May 3, 2006, 11:05]
The Russian Approach To Tackling Data Breaches
News InfoWatch's goal is to deal with information-leakage detection and prevention, and that's a big issue at the moment because of high-profile data-loss incidents like the one at HM Revenue & Customs. InfoWatch only has customers in Russia at the...
[April 29, 2008, 17:41]
HMRC Data Not Filtered Due To Cost
News Emails released by the National Audit Office reveal HM Revenue & Customs did not strip out bank account and other sensitive details contained on the two CDs that have gone missing because of the extra cost it could have incurred.
[November 23, 2007, 14:57]
