§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many cases of computer(a) hacking, (b) fraud and (c) theft his Department has recorded in (i) 2000 and (ii) 2001; and on how many occasions in those years computer systems have been illegally accessed by computer hackers (A) within and (B) outside his Department. [13134]
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§ Mr. MacShaneThe number of recorded cases is as follows:
2000 2001 Hacking 2 3 Fraud 0 0 Theft 7 2 Of the five cases of computer hacking in 2000 and 2001, one was carried out by an insider and the remaining four by persons outside the Department.