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HMRC loses discs willy-nilly
TAX INSPECTOR IN-CHIEF David Hartnett confessed that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) lost people's personal data on six further occasions as well as the particular occasion when two discs with the personal details of 25 million individuals happened to disappear.
Hartnett told a Treasury select committee, there had been a total of seven " significant" data losses and admitted "systemic failure" in the department.
The Treasury select committee chairman Michael Fallon asked: "If you have had seven serious security breaches in the two-and-a-half years since you were set up doesn't that indicate systemic failure?"
Mr Harnett replied: "I think, chairman, it may well do."
According to the Jellygraph in once instance a load of “confidential waste” fell off the back of a lorry. HMRC also lost a lap top containing information on 15,000 Standard Life customers.
In May hapless tax officials managed to send a number of letters containing tax credit information to wrong addresses.
The discs containing details of 25 million Child Benefit recipients have still not been found – despite the £20,000 reward on offer and a countrywide search of blustery landfill sites. µ
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Would this be another government department that has been run by EDS?

I have had to deal with them in an old job, and im afraid to say, everything they seem to touch, falls apart (a fileserver for 400 people doing aero calculations given a 1996 16GB Packard Bell to run on, 16GB FOR 400 PEOPLE! And they were charging so many thousands of £££s a month per GB)

I seem to recall that they did the CSA system (12 years and then shut down because it dont work) passport office screw ups, tax office screwups.....and it goes on.



Unfortunately i found that they supply computers to half the worlds banks.....sorta makes me scared of where my money is!!!!
Seven security breaches, and not one single internal inquiry ! Two and half years of losing confidential data, and not one sanction of any kind !
Looks like those DNA and ID registries are really in good hands. Once again we have the perfect demonstration of the care and attention with which personal data is handled by the government. Ain't you just totally confident about everything now ?
I know I am.
Oh, dang ! Looks like my bong is empty. Gotta go for a refill.