§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on how many occasions in each of the past five years computer systems in his Department have been illegally accessed by computer hackers(a) within and (b) outside his Department. [106225]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThere was one instance of unauthorised external use of a mail gateway in October 1999, but there have been no recorded instances of illegal access to Treasury computer systems at any other time.
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§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many cases of computer(a) fraud, including fraudulent use of computer chips and (b) theft his Department has recorded in the last five years. [106221]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThere has been one instance of unauthorised external use of an email gateway (in October 1999), but there are no further recorded instances of fraudulent use of Treasury systems in any of the last five years.
There have been some cases of thefts of computer equipment as follows:
Year Amount 1995 3 1996 6 1997 9 1998 1 1999 4