Information Commissioner warns about growing data losses
"The UK has seen an "alarming number of security breaches" in the last six months involving public sector, private and charity organisations according to Information Commissioner Richard Thomas.
There have been 94 serious data breaches reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the six months since HM Revenue and Customs lost two CDs containing 25 million records of child benefit recipients"
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