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Comments: 1 +-   UK loses access to 12 million taxpayers on USB! on Sunday November 02 2008, @04:43PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 02 2008, @04:43PM
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An anonymous reader writes "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082402/Tax-website-shut-memory-stick-secret-personal-data-12million-pub-car-park.html 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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  • If you had bothered to read the article, you would know that the stick was lost by an employee of Atos Origin, a private sector organisation, not a government employee.
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