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Re: Tax website shut down as memory stick with secret personal data of 12million is found in a pub car park
From: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:44:36 +0200 (EET)
The numbers are like this: Privacy commissioner: 277 data breaches since November '07 - link: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/misc/print/0,1000000169,39534278-39001093c,00.htm Juha-Matti Jim Murray [jim () digitaldaemons co uk] kirjoitti:
If it wasn't gov.uk this would be unbeleivable. Sadly this level of data security is fast becoming normal for them. Obviously they are far too busy building new super-databases to bother securing the ones they aready have. I suppose this is the end result of 'competitive tendering'.. pay peanuts, get monkeys. Jim. Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:"Ministers have been forced to order an emergency shutdown of a key Government computer system to protect millions of people's private details. The action was taken after a memory stick was found in a pub car park containing confidential passcodes to the online Government Gateway system, which covers everything from tax returns to parking tickets. An urgent investigation is now under way into how the stick, belonging to the company which runs the flagship system, came to be lost. The lost memory stick was found two weeks ago outside a Brewers Fayre chain pub in Cannock, Staffordshire, but the Department of Work and Pensions, which owns the Government Gateway, was made aware of its loss only last week when the 2in device was passed to this newspaper. An expert who examined it for The Mail on Sunday said it contained confidential passwords, security software and the technical blueprint to the system known as the 'source code'. The memory stick is now in the hands of the police." --clip---- == Digital Daemons IT Services == ------------------------------------- = Signed/Encrypted mail preferred = = GnuPG Key ID 0x0AD3FFB0 = -------------------------------------
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