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UK: Data Protection Minister Did Not Know About HMRC Breach

Tash Shifrin writes on ComputerWorld UK:

The government’s data protection minister did not know about the huge data breach at HM Revenue and Customs until he heard the chancellor’s statement in the Commons on 20 November, he has admitted.

Chancellor Alistair Darling said he had been told of the data breach – in which CDs containing the details of 25 million people were lost in transit between HMRC and the National Audit Office – on 10 November.

But data protection minister Michael Wills was forced to admit to parliament’s joint committee on human rights that Darling’s Commons speech was the first he had heard of Britain’s biggest ever data breach.

posted by Fergie @ 11/27/2007 05:41:00 PM