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RSS personal detailsMinistry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The details of 45,000 people, including criminal records and banking and court information have been lost or compromised in the past year by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The biggest breach saw about 27,000 people affected in June 2007, when a... [25 Jul 2008]
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News The system to bring individual PAYE details together on one network had been due to go live in October this year but no new date has been set for its launch. Bernadette Kenny, director general of personal tax at HMRC, said in a statement: "Ensuring... [21 Jul 2008]
Privacy watchdog to get power to raid
News The Poynter Review recently highlighted systematic data handling failures in the HM Revenue & Customs that led to it losing the personal details of 25 million people. The UK's privacy watchdog could get new powers to raid organisations under... [17 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News Echoing concerns in the report, Thomas said in a statement: "There needs to be the fullest public debate about the justification for, and implications of, a specially created database - potentially accessible to a wide range of law enforcement... [15 Jul 2008]
Users' privacy wins in YouTube vs Viacom
News YouTube will be allowed to mask important user information from records it must turn over to Viacom, Google said in a blog post yesterday. Google said in a statement: "Viacom and the other litigants have backed off their demand for YouTube user... [15 Jul 2008]
UK must overhaul data sharing rules
News The Data Sharing Review found that measures were needed to restore public trust in the way Whitehall handles information in the wake of high profiled data breaches, such as HM Revenue & Customs losing 25 million people's personal data and the... [11 Jul 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News Three separate investigations have looked into HM Revenue & Custom's loss of 25 million people's personal details on 18 October last year. It was during the second audit, on 18 October, that the two CDs containing the personal details of 25 million... [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]
Cabinet minister's laptop stolen
News The PC, which was lost on Saturday, contained details of the Cabinet minister's constituency work, and some "restricted information", according to a spokesperson for the department for communities and local government. [18 Jun 2008]
Cotton Traders' site hacked: Thousands of details stolen
News Thousands of credit card details have been stolen after high street retailer Cotton Traders' website was hacked. Hackers breached the company website in January and stole encrypted customer details. It was initially reported that 38,000 card... [11 Jun 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News It also warns of bank accounts being taken over by fraudsters tricking call centre workers, a 37 per cent rise in the cost of phone, internet and mail order fraud and the threat from chip and PIN devices being modified to capture card details. [06 Jun 2008]
Vista security under scrutiny, again
News Details of Vista SP1 revealed These threats can cause substantial damage, by acting as backdoors for hackers to access personal and confidential information from the PC or for the PC to become integrated into a botnet and be used for malicious... [21 May 2008]
Brits living in fear of identity fraud
News It comes on the back of a similar survey of 4,500 adults in the UK by telecoms regulator Ofcom, which revealed approximately half the respondents were worried about disclosing personal details online, and concerns about identity fraud had risen by... [20 May 2008]
Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes
News Soca has also sent out 46 alerts to UK business, which included 11 alerts to UK financial institutions detailing more than 46,000 online account details that had been compromised by phishing and virus attacks, a system for UK call centres to... [15 May 2008]
NHS puts brakes on electronic record system
News The British Medical Association says the SCR breaches confidentiality as currently patients' details are put on the system unless they opt out and backs the report's recommendations to change the ability to opt out. [14 May 2008]
