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Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News 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. A fourth set of CDs is then burnt with a copy of the data scans, this time both... [26 Jun 2008]
Police seek full costs of HMRC CD search
News The password-protected CDs contain the names, addresses, dates of birth and national insurance numbers of the entire HMRC child benefit database. Scotland Yard will demand HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) foot the record bill for the force's hunt for... [14 Jan 2008]
Top 10 security stories of the year
News After losing an unencrypted CD containing the personal pension details of 15,000 people, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) went on to lose the details of 25 million child benefit recipients after two password-protected CDs were sent unrecorded and... [13 Dec 2007]
UK businesses shunning encryption tech?
News Two password-protected CDs containing information from the child benefit database were sent unrecorded and unregistered by a junior HMRC official through courier TNT to the National Audit Office on 18 October but never arrived and have not been... [03 Dec 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 There are several ways to authenticate a person or information on a computer such as the use of a password, digital signatures or even biometrics or voice recognition tech. So encryption is safer than just using password protection? [28 Nov 2007]
HMRC data blunder to sink ID cards?
News An anonymous silicon.com reader from Hove said the episode involves "procedural and supervision failures" both at HMRC and the NAO, adding: "How could auditors have thought it acceptable to be sent the entire database (with only password... [22 Nov 2007]
Missing: 25 million child benefit records
News Two password-protected CDs containing the child benefit information were sent unrecorded and unregistered by a junior HMRC official through courier TNT to the National Audit Office on 18 October but never arrived and have not been found. [20 Nov 2007]
Leader: Why security threats don't have to be taxing
Leader The first ingredient was encryption and password protection. When the laptop was stolen it was, according to an HMRC spokesman, protected by "both a complex password and powerful encryption software". [09 Oct 2007]
Identity theft: security threats get personal
Comment The amount of identity verification information needed in an online transaction is very little: birth dates, mother's maiden names, addresses and a password, which can all be easily guessed," he said. [13 Nov 2000]
