Daily Archives: November 3, 2008

12 million UK Tax logins found in car park

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Basically anyone who’d ever used the Government Gateway for payment or any of the myriad other systems had their logins on this memory stick, as well as the source code to the system itself. This shows what a fantastic idea centralised databases are, especially single sign on systems, when held in the capable hands of a government who has an incredible record of giving away military service personnell data, civilian data, laptops with confidential data and imagery of women undressing caught on the fantastic camera spying system to all and sundry.