{"id":46,"date":"2005-09-23T02:07:59","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T02:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=46"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"britains-internal-revenue-slips-a-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Britain's Internal Revenue Slips a Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got a note recently from Paul Sweeney, who sent me to a digital rights landscape mindmap<\/a> that is worth pondering. He also pointed us to this macabre report from the BBC<\/a> via the very cool out-law.com<\/a> (I hadn't seen it before) via the register<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\"A Revenue and Customs has apologised to customers of investment bank UBS Laing and Cruickshank after losing sensitive account information. The Revenue lost a computer disc, sent by the bank, which contained address and account details of UBS's Personal Equity Plan (Pep) investors. <\/p>\n

The Revenue is investigating how the disc went missing from its offices. <\/p>\n

The bank has offered to change the account details of customers whose personal information was on the disc. <\/p>\n

Worried customers<\/b> <\/p>\n

UBS said the CD Rom was sent in late April at the request of the Revenue. <\/p>\n

Customer information on the data disc included addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers, UBS account numbers and the value of their Peps. <\/p>\n

Last week, UBS Laing and Cruickshank wrote to its customers telling them of the loss. <\/p>\n

A UBS spokesman told BBC News that worried customers who wanted to change their account numbers would be allowed to do so. <\/p>\n

It is not clear how many UBS customers had their account details on the CD Rom. <\/p>\n

However, a spokesman for the bank told BBC News that it was only a “small percentage” of investors. <\/p>\n

In a statement, the Revenue apologised for losing the disc, which it said had been “mislaid within a local office”. <\/p>\n

“Following exhaustive searches, we contacted UBS Wealth Management to apologise,” it added. <\/p>\n

“This is a one off incident in a single office which receives thousands of pieces of post per week. We are urgently reviewing our procedures to make sure this does not happen “<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another recent register link people may find interesting is this story<\/a> on onion routing and associated technologies.<\/p>\n

[tags: Identity Theft<\/a>, Privacy Threat Analysis<\/a>, Identity<\/a>] <\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

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I got a note recently from Paul Sweeney, who sent me to a digital rights landscape mindmap that is worth pondering. He also pointed us to this macabre report from the BBC via the very cool out-law.com (I hadn't seen it before) via the register: Revenue and Customs has apologised to customers of investment bank … Continue reading Britain's Internal Revenue Slips a Disk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}