Perhaps it is because I have started this blog recently but there seems to be an incredible amount of theft and losses of data particularly in the UK in the last few months. Asavin Wattanajantra has posted on ITPRO a great timeline detailing all the major events from end 2006 to now.

A quick tot shows that there were data breaches on 27.2 million people in the UK, albeit one major 25 million event by Revenue&Customs. This event has the dubious honour of being one of the worlds largest ID protection failures ever.

As well as being a worry to consumers , it is costing big business a lot of money as well as losing trust from consumers. Nationwide Building Society was fined £1m for losing customer data that was on a laptop stolen from an employees home.

Paul

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