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  • UK prisoner data goes missing

    Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office contractor lost a USB stick on which it had been stored.

  • NASA hacker pushes for UK jail term

    The solicitors of self-confessed NASA hacker Gary McKinnon have formally requested that the US give assurances that he serve any prison term in the UK.

  • HP/EDS meeting with troubled UK workforce

    HP's UK division said it and subsidiary, IT outsourcer EDS, were meeting with employees to discuss where jobs would be cut following yesterday's announcement that 3,378 UK jobs will go over the next two years.

  • UK government loses trust as well as data

    The HMRC data debacle and other breaches have weakened public confidence in government data security capabilities, says a new survey.

  • UK Home Office admits to database breaches

    The Home Office has admitted that the security of its ID and passport service database has been compromised several times, but denied that remote hackers were responsible.

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