All UK census data stolen, and to be published online
21 June 2011 - 1:35pm
Updated: The UK's Office and National Statistics and Lockheed Martin are racing to check whether hacker group LulzSec had gotten its hands on this year's census data.Such a massive data loss would be embarrassing even for a government with such an amazing record of data protection failures.LulzSec's Twitter page has no mention of the supposed hack, but a message on PasteBin - which is open to anyone - suggests they have obtained the records.The message said:Greetings Internets,We have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the 2011 census We're keeping them under lock and key though... so don't worry about your privacy (...until we finish re-formatting them for release)It then warns that the database will be put on the Pirate Bay once the re-formatting has been finished.