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The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up This week it's the turn of HM Revenue and Customs, or at least phishing villains purporting to be HMRC. Still no sign of those CDs, by the way. Phishing has become a constant nuisance for the good... [24 Jul 2009]
Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners
News And last year, two CDs containing the confidential personal details of 25 million child benefit recipients were lost by HM Revenue & Customs. Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales... [22 Aug 2008]
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 search for the CDs was wound down in January with an expectation that the... [18 Jul 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News The IPCC was looking into events leading up to the loss of data and considering whether any criminal conduct or disciplinary offences had been committed by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) staff. Problems of this nature arose... [26 Jun 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News Timeline of the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data losses Two CDs containing data from the CBCS are sent to the NAO. In subsequent emails, NAO employees emphasise the CDs must be... [26 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08
Round-Up And over at the head offices of HM Revenue & Customs, life is returning to normal. The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving customer information with the Information Commissioner's Office since April... [02 May 2008]
600 HMRC workers caught snooping
News The government faced condemnation after it emerged that 600 staff at Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have been disciplined for snooping on personal data. The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving... [01 May 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. It was on former chairman Paul Gray's watch that the department lost the two... [29 Feb 2008]
Poll: Execs should be jailed for data loss
News The poll follows on from the HM Revenue & Customs loss in November 2007 of two CDs containing the details of 25 million people and a flurry of reported incidents since.silicon.com's Full Disclosure... [14 Feb 2008]
Tax payer still owed millions by EDS
News In a settlement EDS agreed to pay £71.25m to Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) over problems with the tax credit computer system it designed. HMRC chairman Paul Gray - who has since resigned over the loss by his... [05 Feb 2008]
Stories of the month - January 2008
News HM Revenue & Customs admitted it was forced to cough up £2.25m to send out letters of apology to the 25 million people whose records it lost on two CDs and the theft of a Ministry of Defence laptop... [30 Jan 2008]
Taxpayer stung by £2.25m HMRC apology
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 (HMRC). The seven figure bill provoked outrage from the... [17 Jan 2008]
Police seek full costs of HMRC CD search
News Scotland Yard will demand HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) foot the record bill for the force's hunt for the missing data discs containing 25 million child benefit records. The Met's search for the two missing... [14 Jan 2008]
MPs condemn government over L-driver data loss
News The data loss follows from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) losing two CDs containing details of more than 25 million people claiming and receiving child benefit as well as the Northern Ireland Driver and... [18 Dec 2007]
Gov't needs greater accountability to "ensure security", says Darling
News In the wake of the loss of 25 million personal records by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) last month, and the presentation of an interim report into that data loss by PricewaterhouseCoopers chairman Kieran... [18 Dec 2007]
