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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 Offers £20,000 For Return Of Lost Discs
News The government is offering a £20,000 reward to anyone who finds the missing discs from HM Revenue & Customs containing 25 million child-benefit records, after the initial police search failed to find them.
[December 5, 2007, 14:08]
Migrating From Mainframe To Sun Solaris Saves Taxpayers $10 Million Annually
White Papers More than 25,000 registered users in the global Department of Defense (DoD) community relied on the IT system for enrollment information, eligibility and benefits coverage verification, immunization records, referral authorizations, reports to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
Clinton Sex Scandal Great News For Web
News Seattle-based MSNBC, one of the Web's most trafficked sites, reports breaking its own viewership records twice in the past week. The site's highest daily page viewership was Oct.with 13.8 million page views.
[January 30, 1998, 14:08]
Security Loses To Holiday Rush
News The judge wanted to know how the computer clock stamping the records had been secured, a question that flummoxed the prosecution. While business-to-business sites open up more of a company's operations to crooks -- Lynch cited one instance in which...
[January 3, 2000, 5:57]
A Year Ago: Security Loses To Holiday Rush
News The judge wanted to know how the computer clock stamping the records had been secured, a question that flummoxed the prosecution. While business-to-business sites open up more of a company's operations to crooks -- Lynch cited one instance in which...
[January 3, 2001, 6:01]
Publishers Blame Spam On Stolen Lists
News A security breach at Egghead temporarily exposed the records of 3.7 million of its customer records in late 2000. A hack at Amazon.com-owned Bibliofind last year compromised nearly 100,000 customer records, including credit card numbers.
[September 12, 2002, 7:55]
Government 'bang To Rights' Over HMRC Fiasco
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said that, on the facts known, the UK government is "bang to rights" over the loss of 25 million personal records. Up to 7.25 million families could be affected.
[November 21, 2007, 13:13]
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. Jonathan Armstrong, principal partner at law firm Eversheds, drew parallels with a similar...
[November 23, 2007, 10:29]
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. They also include the bank account details of more than seven million parents...
[January 15, 2008, 7:46]
Don't Blame 'stupid Users' For Data Breaches
News Ashenden's speech made reference to several recent high-profile security breaches, including the exposure of 25 million individual's records by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in November last year, and the loss of an MoD laptop containing the records...
[April 2, 2008, 14:30]
Immediate Ban Stops Laptops Leaving Whitehall
News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient...
[January 23, 2008, 7:52]
MoD Admits Loss Of Over 11,000 ID Cards
News The government has suffered many data-security breaches over the past five months, including the MoD having three laptops stolen containing approximately 600,000 servicemen's and recruits' details, the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patient...
[March 14, 2008, 7:31]
BlackBerrys Grounded By Whitehall Data Ban
News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient...
[February 5, 2008, 8:13]
Norwich Union Life Fined £1.26m For Data Loss
News Also, in some cases they were able to ask for confidential customer records such as addresses and bank account details to be altered. The fraudsters used the information to request the surrender of 74 customers' policies [resulting in losses...
[December 17, 2007, 12:31]
Whitehall Reports 30 Data Losses Since November
News While the ICO declined to name the individual organisations involved, it said that information that has gone missing includes unencrypted laptops and computer discs, memory sticks and paper records. The material involved includes a wide range of...
[June 24, 2008, 13:20]
Apple Gives MPEG-4 A New Shine
News With Tuesday's announcement, Apple said that QuickTime is gaining acceptance with many new content creators, including record labels such as Jive Records, which produced digital video for Britney Spears and Wilco.
[October 16, 2002, 8:10]
Online Storage Could Risk Your Files
News People who didn't check email during the critical download period or didn't back up their records lost them. Only after searching Internet message boards did Lander discover that PhotoPoint had shut down without notifying its 1.5 million customers.
[April 22, 2002, 14:02]
Home Office Proclaims Security Of ID Cards Scheme
News But Hillier said there would actually be two "baskets": one database for biometrics, such as fingerprints and facial records, and another for biographical information. The government will also create an "identity custodian", to whom members of the...
[February 27, 2008, 13:34]
