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The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for the missing HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) data discs. The Met has said it will try to recover the full costs from the HMRC for what is... [18 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News On Tuesday the ICO also served enforcement notices against the HMRC and the MoD following the departments' high profile data breaches. Both the MoD and the HMRC are now required to show steps they have... [15 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up This week the Poynter Report published its review of the HMRC missing CDs debacle. The report found "two major institutional deficiencies", namely that "information security simply wasn't a management priority as it... [27 Jun 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News More than 30 officials from four HMRC departments and a number of NAO staff played some part in the data loss. HMRC moves to having single customer records across all systems. HMRC... [26 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Less data equals more privacy
Comment Yesterday we revealed there have been 30 data losses in central government, 50 in public sector organisations and 17 in local government in the months since the HMRC embarrassed itself. Perhaps civil servants have been... [26 Jun 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News Timeline of the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data losses The loss of 25 million records from HMRC's Child Benefit Computer System was declared "deplorable" and "entirely avoidable" in two reports into the... [26 Jun 2008]
Need for "radical change" in 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... [26 Jun 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News The Poynter report said: "The data loss incident arose following a sequence of communications failures between junior HMRC officials and between them and the National Audit Office (NAO). The Information Commissioner's... [25 Jun 2008]
Government racks up 100 data breaches
News The issue of public data loss became a bigger issue 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. Whitehall has... [24 Jun 2008]
Cabinet minister's laptop stolen
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. The PC, which was lost on Saturday, contained details of the... [18 Jun 2008]
Taxman unleashes podcasts on the nation
News In this latest audio offering from the agency, HMRC customs expert Mark Fuchter explains what items carry restrictions and which are banned altogether. An HMRC spokesman told silicon.com the organisation... [05 Jun 2008]
Taxman gets record number of online returns
News About 1.4 million out of the 1.6 million returns, 87 per cent, received by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) were sent online, it has revealed.silicon.com Public Sector Each year about 1.8 million employers... [02 Jun 2008]
HMRC tax credit system: Lost "almost £10bn"
News The Her Majesty's Revenue & Custom's (HMRC) system to give a tax break to families has lost £9.91bn in fraud, error and overpayments to date.silicon.com Financial Services The Liberal Democrats say the quarterly figures... [22 May 2008]
Outlawed: Reckless loss of data
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. [12 May 2008]
Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall
News Two government departments - Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Highways Agency showcased their environmental credentials at the Green IT 08 event. HMRC has about 100,000 PCs and 6,600... [09 May 2008]
