{"id":947,"date":"2007-11-20T23:49:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T23:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/25-million-people-caught-up-in-uk-government-data-security-fiasco.htm"},"modified":"2007-11-20T23:49:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T23:49:10","slug":"25-million-people-caught-up-in-uk-government-data-security-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/25-million-people-caught-up-in-uk-government-data-security-fiasco.htm","title":{"rendered":"25 million people caught up in UK Government data security fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m treading carefully here to avoid political comment but, for those who haven&#8217;t seen tonight&#8217;s news, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/7103566.stm\">a UK Government department has lost the personal details for 25 million people including names, dates of birth, national insurance\/child benefit numbers and bank details<\/a>.  On a CD.  In the post.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;d like to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmrc.gov.uk\/\">HM Revenue and Customs<\/a> for making such a monumental **** up with my family&#8217;s personal information.  In this day and age, I find it amazing that two government departments have to transfer data between one another on CD (isn&#8217;t that why they have a Government Secure Intranet?) but to send that in the internal mail (unregistered) is amazingly inept (and, according to tonight&#8217;s BBC News, against Government guidelines).  Furthermore, the news report I heard said that the passwords protecting the data could be cracked in seconds, so I&#8217;m interpreting that as a statement that the data wasn&#8217;t even encrypted.<\/p>\n<p>What makes it so galling is that the information was being transferred to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\/\">National Audit Office<\/a>.  Surely they can be trusted to access the Revenue&#8217;s systems directly without needing a database extract on CD?  And <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/economics\/story\/0,,2214235,00.html\">why did it take nearly 3 weeks for someone to report that the data was missing<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough, names and dates of birth are public information and bank details are not exactly top secret (my bank has told me it&#8217;s not something to be too concerned about) but it puts my own attempts to maintain data security into perspective.  If the Government can&#8217;t keep my identity safe, who can?<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who is concerned about the implications of this data breach should check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmrc.gov.uk\/childbenefit\/customer-update.htm\">HMRC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apacs.org.uk\/AdviceonIDtheftforchildbenefitrecipients.html\">APACS<\/a> information on the data loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m treading carefully here to avoid political comment but, for those who haven&#8217;t seen tonight&#8217;s news, a UK Government department has lost the personal details for 25 million people including names, dates of birth, national insurance\/child benefit numbers and bank details. On a CD. In the post. So, I&#8217;d like to thank HM Revenue and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/25-million-people-caught-up-in-uk-government-data-security-fiasco.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">25 million people caught up in UK Government data security fiasco<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>25 million people caught up in UK Government data security fiasco - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/25-million-people-caught-up-in-uk-government-data-security-fiasco.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"25 million people caught up in UK Government data security fiasco - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m treading carefully here to avoid political comment but, for those who haven&#8217;t seen tonight&#8217;s news, a UK Government department has lost the personal details for 25 million people including names, dates of birth, national insurance\/child benefit numbers and bank details. 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