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Data on 15m benefits claims 'lost by Customs'
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:40:56 +0000 (UTC)
Courtesy WK and InfoSec News: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/20/ncustoms220.xml By Emma Henry and agencies 20/11/2007 The head of Revenue & Customs has resigned after his department lost the details of as many as 15 million child benefit claimants in what is believed to be one of the world's biggest ID protection failures. Paul Gray quit ahead of a Commons statement this afternoon by Chancellor Alistair Darling on "a major operational problem". It is understood the information was stored on discs, which went missing in transit and have not yet been recovered. The Metropolitan Police are investigating The data includes names, home addresses, dates of birth, National Insurance numbers and bank details of millions of child benefit recipients. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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