Yet Another HMRC Data Loss Scandal
Posted on December 18, 2007
Filed Under Politics |
Her Majesty’s Customs and Revenue (HMRC) are starting to get into their stride with regard to losing people’s data.
They are now trying to keep up the impetus after having lost the details of 25 million people, roughly half the population of Great Britain, with sporadic and smaller scale losses of data for other areas of the lives of every citizen.
AOL Money has this:
HM Revenue and Customs became embroiled in another data scandal after it emerged that it lost personal details of 6,000 private pension holders.
In the latest lapse to come to light, HMRC admitted that it has lost a computer cartridge containing the names, postcodes and National Insurance numbers of customers of a private pensions firm after signing for the package at a centre in Wales.
Read the full story to see just how incompetent the government of Gordon “Prudence” Brown is becoming in its dying days.
Tags: britain, cyber crime, data loss scandal, fiasco, government, incompetence
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