HC Deb 09 November 2001 vol 374 cc485-6W
Mr. Burstow

To 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]

Mr. MacShane

The 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.

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