Thread: Security Stuff Up

This is nothing to what has been going on over here!

For a start, a contractor to the Governments Benefits Agency lost two discs containing the names, addresses and bank details of 25 million people who receive Child Benefit - i.e every parent and child in the country including me and the Prime Minister. No one knows when or how it might be used for identity fraud.

A laptop containing the names addresses and bank details of everyone who expressed interest in joining the armed forces was stolen.

The list goes on.... A Civil Servant was fined £2000 for leaving confidential information on a train. A junior Government minister did the same thing and seems to have got away with it.

The invention of the laptop, CD-R and memory stick has been a disaster for security. But its not a new thing. We had a thread on here a few weeks ago that mentioned (if I remember rightly) that uncoded documents about the defences of Singapore were sent out there by ship in the early part of WW2, and the ship was boarded by a German vessel (can't remember which one, a commerce raider I think) and the information passed to the Japanese who used the info to plan their invasion.