HC Deb 22 July 2004 vol 424 c592W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reports of(a) cyber attack and (b) misuse of the data and information systems of UK based banks and financial services companies he estimates there were in each year since 1997. [185164]

Caroline Flint

Reports of the unauthorised access to information systems and possible offences which might arise from the misuse or modification of data, are made to local police forces. There are no centrally aggregated figures of these reports.