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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 Metropolitan Police Service mounted a months-long search for the data discs containing 25 million child benefit records... [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 out of the merger of the... [26 Jun 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News Timeline of the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data losses 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 blunder released this week. [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. According to the written answer, the minister added: "HMRC has a strict policy forbidding staff to access customer records, unless they have a legitimate business need. [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. She said in her written answer: "HMRC has a strict policy forbidding staff to access... [01 May 2008]
Public trust eroded: Data breaches to blame
News Of the 1,025 respondents, 66 per cent said their trust in government departments had decreased due to information breaches such as the loss of 25 million personal records by HM Revenue & Customs last year. [30 Apr 2008]
UK hit by 100 data breaches in six months
News Organisations continue to lose sensitive personal data - despite high profile cases such as the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data breach, and the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has warned chief executives to protect staff and customers... [22 Apr 2008]
Data breaches: Don't blame 'stupid' employees
News Ashenden's speech made reference to several recent high-profile security breaches, including the exposure of 25 million individual's records by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in November last year, and the loss of an MoD laptop containing the records... [03 Apr 2008]
IT at fault: Millions pay wrong tax amount
News Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs has promised to fix its computer systems after it was found to have incorrectly taxed up to five million UK citizens. The NAO said problems stemmed from tax records being structured around jobs rather than around... [02 Apr 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. A string of revelations about lost government data followed the HMRC data breach, including the NHS losing hundreds of... [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 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 department of two CDs... [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]
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 containing 600,000 records prompted a ban on all... [30 Jan 2008]
