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Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News The timeline below documents the series of blunders leading up to the data breach… Each file is protected by a low-level seven-digit alphanumeric password. It then emerges the data on the replacement discs to be sent out is not password protected. [26 Jun 2008]
White Paper: Windows Vista Misunderstood Security Breach
White Paper Instead, in the hope to reduce the incidence of malware, unauthorized software installation, and unintentional system changes the User Account Control separates standard user tasks from requiring administrator level password access. [21 May 2008]
Laptop theft breaks data protection law
News Skipton Financial Services (SFS) has been found to have been in breach of the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) - but has escaped without any punishment. We are calling for greater public debate and for the... [21 Feb 2008]
Stories of the year
News In the wake of the breach, HMRC has been criticised by security experts and CIOs. This highlighted the fact there is no similar obligation for private sector organisations to notify UK citizens if their personal data has been compromised by a... [14 Dec 2007]
Top 10 security stories of the year
News If you had to sum up 2007's security scene in a couple of words, those words would probably be 'data breach'. The breach was the largest ever seen in the UK and the HMRC has subsequently offered a £20,000 reward to anyone who finds the missing disks. [13 Dec 2007]
UK businesses shunning encryption tech?
News Despite the lack of encryption, UK IT managers claim their corporate data is safe and almost two-thirds (65 per cent) said the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data breach will not change their IT spending priorities, according to a survey by Check Point. [03 Dec 2007]
Stories of the month - November 2007
News This month started with an iPhone bang and ended on a data-loss whimper as the UK suffered its largest-ever data breach thanks to Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) misplacing 25 million child benefit claimants' records. [29 Nov 2007]
HMRC data breach prompts password and PIN changes
News But customers using their child's name or date of birth as a password - information which is contained in the lost records - are advised to think strongly about changing them. It emerged last week that HMRC has lost two password-protected CDs... [29 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
Cheat Sheet Well, one big reason is data breach notifications. Although there are no data breach notification laws in the UK at the moment, HM Revenue & Customs is probably kicking itself over not encrypting the two CDs containing the details of 25 million... [28 Nov 2007]
ICO: HMRC breach - where were the tech safeguards?
News In the wake of the largest-ever data breach to hit the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office has criticised the apparent lack of technological safeguards in government departments and called for "privacy-enhancing technologies" to be built... [23 Nov 2007]
HMRC data blunder to sink ID cards?
News Another reader, ex-RAF cryptographer Paul Howard, said the government's delay in making the data loss public underlines the need for the UK to adopt Californian-style data breach legislation "to ensure the loss of personal records are notified... [22 Nov 2007]
Security experts slam HMRC over data loss
News Armstrong predicted a likely outcome of this week's revelations will be a rash of phishing scams, where fraudsters will try to trick bank details out of people already worried about the data breach. It is likely banks will suffer as a result of the... [22 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Data breach row, hotel iMac, wi-fi piggybacking: yay or nay?
Comment UK's worst security breach How could auditors have thought it acceptable to be sent the entire database (with only password protection) by (outsourced) internal mail? Alter a password or two. Missing: 25 million child benefit records [22 Nov 2007]
How did 25 million records get 'lost in the post'?
News The loss by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) of two CDs crammed with sensitive data is now being seen as the UK's biggest ever data breach. Darling said the delay in notifying the public about the security breach was on the advice of privacy... [21 Nov 2007]
Missing: 25 million child benefit records
News In a statement to Parliament, Darling said the delay in notifying the public of the security breach was necessary to allow the banks time to flag up affected bank accounts and monitor them for any unusual activity. [20 Nov 2007]
