Written question asked by Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 28 January 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 6 February 2002. It was answered by Bob Ainsworth (Labour) on Wednesday, 6 February 2002 on behalf of the Home Office.

Home Office

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish for each Department contributing to the Unified Reporting and Alert Scheme for (a) internal hacking and (b) external hacking incidents the number of incidents categorised as (i) access denied, (ii) browsing, (iii) password abuse, (iv) privilege abuse, (v) data stolen/disclosed, (vi) files deleted/damaged, (vii) fraud and (viii) other. - Includes table. (Holding answer 31 January 2002).

Answer: Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish for each Department contributing to the Unified reporting and Alert Scheme for (a) internal hacking and (b) external hacking incidents the number of incidents categorised as (i) access denied, (ii) browsing, (iii) password abuse, (iv) privilege abuse, (v) data stolen/disclosed, (vi) files deleted/damaged, (vii) fraud and (viii) other. [31875] Mr. Bob Ainsworth: [holding answer 31 January 2002]: Reports are made to the United Incident Reporting and Alert Scheme (UNIRAS) by a wide variety of critical national infrastructure organisations, including Government Departments, on an in-confidence basis. For the period of 1 January 1999 to 29 January 2002 the totals for reports submitted by Government Departments, not capable of being split between external and internal incidents without disproportionate cost, are: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number Hacking incidents of all kinds 13,146 Browsing 47 Password abuse 11 Privilege abuse 30 Data stolen/disclosed 10 Files deleted/damaged 23 Access denied 12,929 Fraud 2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

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