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In UK, 12M Taxpayers Lost With USB Stick

Posted by kdawson on from the and-your-little-data-too dept.

An anonymous reader tips a piece from the UK's Daily Mail that recounts another sad tale of the careless loss of massive amounts of private user data. "Ministers have been forced to order an emergency shutdown of a key Government computer system to protect millions of people's private details. The action was taken after a memory stick was found in a pub car park containing confidential passcodes to the online Government Gateway system, which covers everything from tax returns to parking tickets. An urgent investigation is now under way into how the stick, belonging to the company which runs the flagship system, came to be lost."

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  1. Re:How it came to be lost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Re:How it came to be lost? by electrictroy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Time to start demanding Account numbers *separate* from you social security number. That helps minimize the damage to a minor loss of personal info at megacorp.com, rather than a loss of national identity (someone else pretending to be you with your stolen SS number).

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    The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
  4. Re:How it came to be lost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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