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The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News The Metropolitan Police Service mounted a months-long search for the data discs containing 25 million child benefit records after they went missing in October 2007. The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for the missing HM... [18 Jul 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News Individual members of staff were not to blame for losing the missing Child Benefit data CDs. It found that systems such as Paye, National Insurance, Child Benefit and Tax Credits are operating as separate systems, each with their own individual... [26 Jun 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News The NAO begins its first discrete external audit of the Child Benefit Computer System (CBCS). The loss of 25 million records from HMRC's Child Benefit Computer System was declared "deplorable" and "entirely avoidable" in two reports into the data... [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 PricewaterhouseCoopers chair Kieran... [26 Jun 2008]
Treasury turns to tech guru to slash IT costs
News A number of recent large IT projects by the government are late or over budget, including systems used by the Child Support Agency and the National Health Service. The private sector has made significant strides forward in this area in recent years... [23 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 Cabinet minister's... [18 Jun 2008]
ICO: Data theft laws must not be axed
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... [01 Apr 2008]
Driver agency plugs data leaks
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... [28 Mar 2008]
MoD admits to losing 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... [13 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment Twenty-five million child benefit records were lost in the post between HMRC and the National Audit Office. The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably close to home, argues Stewart Baines. [10 Mar 2008]
'Data guardians' keep a watch over HMRC
News Scores of "data guardians" have been employed to protect HM Revenue & Customs from a repeat of the child benefit data scandal. HMRC has appointed 37 guardians to monitor data handling and transfer, financial secretary to the Treasury, Jane Kennedy... [29 Feb 2008]
Data breaches: No more than normal
News HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million details of people claiming and receiving child benefit was the catalyst for a surge of data-loss reports, an ICO spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk. [18 Feb 2008]
Police unprepared for security 'arms race'
News An e-petition calling for the return of a dedicated unit was set up in the wake of the spate of government data breaches, which began with the loss of 25 million child benefit records by HM Revenue & Customs. [14 Feb 2008]
Tax payer still owed millions by EDS
News HMRC chairman Paul Gray - who has since resigned over the loss by his department of two CDs containing 25 million child benefit records - told the PAC hearing the department would return to litigation if necessary. [05 Feb 2008]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News Sir Edmund Burton, chairman of the Information Advisory Council, is examining weaknesses in the MoD data security procedures and there is an ongoing cross-government review of data handling following HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million child... [04 Feb 2008]
