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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... [26 Jun 2008]
Should data loss be made a criminal offence?
News But the report is splitting opinion among senior figures in the IT industry, with disagreement over whether the government should resort to legislation in an attempt to prevent future incidents similar to the HM Revenue &... [04 Jan 2008]
Security experts slam HMRC over data loss
News The loss by HM Revenue & Customs of 25 million child benefit claimant records has understandably sparked a host of reactions from security and legal experts. Ovum principal analyst Graham Titterington... [22 Nov 2007]
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]
Commons' committee calls for reckless-data-loss laws
News The recommendations by the committee, headed by Liberal Democrat MP Alan Beith, came in the wake of a series of admissions of lost data from government departments that began in November with HM Revenue &... [03 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... [18 Dec 2007]
ICO: Make 'reckless' data loss an offence
News Recent data breaches include the loss of 25 million details by HM Revenue & Customs, reported last November, and the more recent loss of a Ministry of Defence laptop... [31 Jan 2008]
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. This is not the first... [21 Nov 2007]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News Undoubtedly, the fall-out from HM Revenue & Customs' loss of two discs containing 25 million child benefit records has reverberated throughout the public sector with seismic proportions. This happened... [19 Dec 2007]
Editor's Blog: Missing data, missing brains
Comment The fallout from the loss of sensitive data held by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs on 25 million people is only just beginning to be felt. The loss of the... [21 Nov 2007]
Are UK data laws fit for purpose?
News The UK's data protection laws have been branded 'unfit for purpose' in the wake of the loss of CDs containing 25 million records by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). This... [23 Nov 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... [18 Dec 2007]
Whitehall staff banned from removing laptops
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... [22 Jan 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... [18 Feb 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]
