UK government hit with another large computer failure
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NOVEMBER 26, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - IT system failures continued to plague the UK government this week, when as many as 80,000 civil servants working for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) had to deal with what is being described in the local
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LONDON -- After continuous computer failures forced the top civil servant of the U.K.'s Department of Work and Pensions' Child Support Agency (CSA) to step down from his job this week, the government is considering scrapping a welfare case management and telephony system developed in large part by Electronic Data Systems (EDS).
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Staff at the United Kingdom&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions were unable to use their PCs this week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the computers in the sprawling department.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON  SAN JOSE, Calif. - Your work computer just suffered a major meltdown. Maybe the operating system failed, or a virus crashed the hard drive.
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An error during routine system testing of United's computer system was the preliminary root cause of yesterday's Computer failure.
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Electronic Data Systems Corp. and Microsoft Corp. were blamed by the United Kingdom&#39;s pension and benefits agency for a computer crash that snarled payments across Britain.
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The computer crash that shut down systems at Britain&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions only caused delays in dealing with new and amended claims, according to the agency.
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BBC News learns that a  hacker crashed a number of Northern Ireland government websites.
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We don't care so they don't care The latest data giveaway by the UK's Ministry of Defence shows that not even the most basic IT policies are being followed.â¦
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The British government faced fresh embarrassment over losing data Monday after admitting that over three million learner drivers' records were mislaid by a contractor in the United States.
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Britain's top transport official said Monday that a disk drive containing personal information on three million driving test candidates has been lost in the United States Â the latest in a series of government blunders over data.
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A software upgrade caused some 40,000 computers to crash at the UK government&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions last week. The crash of the Windows-based systems took most of the department&#39;s computers offline for five working days.
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Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled today after a widespread Internet failure that brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
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Propose switch to decentralised, interoperable databases The Tory party has put forward a rescue plan for the NHS IT system in the wake of the latest government data losses, which were revealed over the weekend. Nine English NHS trusts have owned up to large scale losses of personal data, and although in most cases the nature of this data has yet to be revealed, City &amp; Hackney Primary Care Trust reportedly mislaid the names and addresses of 160,000 children.â¦
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Further savings expected for public sector The UK government has smashed its previous record for cost savings achieved from a reverse e-auctionâ¦
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Government fightback derailed by unforced errors as Tories concentrate fire on Brown's leadership
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A laptop containing the details of 600,000 people has been stolen, the Ministry of Defence announced Friday, in another staggering loss of personal data in Britain.