- Title
- Data loss in the British government : A bounty of credentials for organised crime
- Creator
- Watters, Paul
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/67922
- Identifier
- vital:2312
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1109/UIC-ATC.2009.73
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781424449026
- Abstract
- Personal information stored in large government databases is a prime target for criminals because of its potential use in identity theft and associated crime, such as fraud. In 2007-2008, a number of very high-profile cases of data loss within the British Government, its departments and non-departmental bodies raised three pressing issues of public significance: (1) how broad was the loss across agencies; (2) how deep was each loss incident; and (3) what counter-measures (organisational and technical) could be put in place to prevent further loss? This paper provides a chronological review of data loss incidents, and assesses the potential to mitigate risk, given organisational structures and processes, and taking into account current government calls for further medium and long-term acquisition and storage of citizen's private data. The potential use of the "lost" credentials is discussed in the context of identity theft. © 2009 IEEE.
- Publisher
- Brisbane :
- Relation
- Paper presented at UIC-ATC 2009 - Symposia and Workshops on Ubiquitous, Autonomic and Trusted Computing in Conjunction with the UIC'09 and ATC'09 Conferences, Brisbane : 7th-9th July 2009 p. 531-536
- Rights
- Copyright IEEE
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Identity theft; Fraud; Data loss; Government databases; British government
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