UK government loses another 3 million records

**Glaswegian** · 12-18-2007, 12:38 PM

The records of more than 3 million UK learner drivers have gone missing from a firm in the US, the government has admitted.

On the same day that the chancellor of the exchequer, Alistair Darling, updated the House of Commons about the investigation into HMRC's loss last month of 25 million child benefit records held on two CDs, transport secretary Ruth Kelly said that a data security audit in her department had revealed that a US contractor to the Driving Standards Agency had lost a disc containing the records of just over 3 million candidates for the country’s driving theory test.

The records contained on the hard disc included the names and addresses of the test applicants, their telephone numbers and in some cases an email address – but no financial data.

http://www.techworld.com/security/ne...S&NewsID=10957

The Government is making even Group4 look good....

**carsey** · 12-18-2007, 12:43 PM

We only heard of this after 10 months.

SACK THE GOVERNMENT.... It would work better.

**koala** · 12-18-2007, 01:37 PM

These cases are becoming more common now we're relying on technology to store our personal details, and untrained staff to maintain and secure the data, yet they still want us to accept the idea of Identity Cards which contain ALL our personal details. A hacker's dream come true!

I'm just waiting for the first post to TSF from a government official asking for help. "Encryption? What's that? Backups? Never heard of them."

12-18-2007, 12:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
Glaswegian Moderator/ Rangemaster TSF Academy; Analyst, Security Team; Oor Wullie; TSF Surgeon and Resident Comic Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Glasgow Posts: 23,940 OS: Win XP Pro SP3 / Win 7 RC My System Blog Entries: 10	UK government loses another 3 million records The records of more than 3 million UK learner drivers have gone missing from a firm in the US, the government has admitted. On the same day that the chancellor of the exchequer, Alistair Darling, updated the House of Commons about the investigation into HMRC's loss last month of 25 million child benefit records held on two CDs, transport secretary Ruth Kelly said that a data security audit in her department had revealed that a US contractor to the Driving Standards Agency had lost a disc containing the records of just over 3 million candidates for the country’s driving theory test. The records contained on the hard disc included the names and addresses of the test applicants, their telephone numbers and in some cases an email address – but no financial data. http://www.techworld.com/security/ne...S&NewsID=10957 The Government is making even Group4 look good.... __________________ Iain - Defender of the Haggis and all things Scottish. I don't help by PM - post in the Forums. Ad-Aware::SpywareBlaster::SpyBot::SpywareGuard::SnoopFree::AVG Free::HOSTS File::HijackThis::Donate::Photographers Corner

12-18-2007, 12:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
carsey Moderator, TSF Articles Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Hunwick, Co. Durham England Posts: 10,472 OS: XP Pro SP3 My System	Re: UK government loses another 3 million records We only heard of this after 10 months. SACK THE GOVERNMENT.... It would work better. __________________ Submit New Articles Here

12-18-2007, 01:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
koala Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Posts: 11,218 OS: XP/7/Ubuntu My System	Re: UK government loses another 3 million records These cases are becoming more common now we're relying on technology to store our personal details, and untrained staff to maintain and secure the data, yet they still want us to accept the idea of Identity Cards which contain ALL our personal details. A hacker's dream come true! I'm just waiting for the first post to TSF from a government official asking for help. "Encryption? What's that? Backups? Never heard of them." __________________ New members: Subscribe to your thread (Thread Tools) to receive an instant email notification when you get a reply. TSF Folding@Home Team 85015 - details here