Discs with personal information on 25 million UK residents “go missing”

Unbelievable potential data breach in the UK:

…the names, the addresses and the dates of birth of every child in the country are sitting on two computer discs that are apparently lost in the post, and the bank account details and National Insurance numbers of 10 million parents…

This is just staggering - UK families are “urged to monitor their bank accounts”.

Instead of sticking a few secure APIs onto the HM Revenue & Customs data they courier around database backups where access to the data cannot never be logged or traced. It would seem IT departments have a long way to go to evolve their thinking…

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 data, government, privacy, uk

1 Comment to Discs with personal information on 25 million UK residents “go missing”

You can buy them on ebay now

Johnny K on November 21st, 2007

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