Child Benefit Records lost

[Stephen]

Alistair Darling has blamed mistakes by junior officials at HM Revenue and Customs after details of 25 million child benefit recipients were lost.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm

[jesus]

wot a loser

[Technologic]

Ha ha.

Government failed as per usual

[Smits]

Unlucky mate.

[crans]

wow imagine access to 25m accounts lol, if it got in wrong hands the person could slider £5 off every account and be like 125m rich?!!?! lol

anyways, why the hell would they even "post" such a important stuff like that.

[-:Undertaker:-]

This is another example of why we shouldn't have a national database.

[efq]

=/ how do you lose 25 million records o.O

There must be hundreds of backups

[WarezKid]

Rofl. at that.


Now, i gonna lose money ;(

[Hazza]

Glad my parents don't get child benefits.
Some people could be in real danger - Even though they have said there is no indication that frauds have the records - Only time will tell.

[:Liam]

How are there that many records :S The population of the UK is only: 60,776,238, according to google figures. So they must have records from overseas too :S

[Janet Snakehole]

This is another example of why we shouldn't have a national database.

I agree with you there.

[-Xiangu-]

this is ******* stupid. yes im going to ******* swear as this matter involves me and my family. why cant she ****** ******* government actually keep things safe these days? im incredably appauled and the man who was blamed should be shot im afraid.

[-Sweex]

my mum works for HM Revenue and Customs. Although only in the customs department. So stupid when the two merged

ANYWAY. Not very good for people who recieve child benefits

[Sammeth.]

How are there that many records :S The population of the UK is only: 60,776,238, according to google figures. So they must have records from overseas too :S

Of course they could have 25,000,000 records if there are 60,000,000 people in the UK...:S!

[jrh2002]

the 25million consist of All parents claiming child benefit and all the kids they claim it for.

I would guess 85% - 95% of the users on this forum are affected

They lost bank account details (that the benefit was paid into)
national insurance numbers.
Dates of birth
Addresses
etc

All can be easily used in ID fraud and when the child is older the people can use their details to obtain credit etc.

[5,5]

Somebodys in trouuublllleeeee.

[Minstrels]

Thats just silly, how can you lose that many records...

[jrh2002]

Thats just silly, how can you lose that many records...


it was on 2 disks and posted unregistered using internal post by TNT :o they dont even know if they were even posted :o

they had not even encrypted the disks ;o

also it was a junior clerk or something who posted them :s junior clerks have access to some serious data :o

surely this is against the data protection?

[adidas™]

Glad my parents don't get child benefits.
Some people could be in real danger - Even though they have said there is no indication that frauds have the records - Only time will tell.

everybody gets child benifits, (aslong as ure bringin up a child obviously), got nothin to do with how much wonga ure parents are on.

[Frodo13.]

Pretty messed up. This effects a hell of alot of people too! Everyone with kids ages 0-17 I belive.

[Hazza]

I didn't think everyone did? Even if you have more than one kid?

[WarezKid]

Rofl, they posted 2 DISC?

they cant hold half of UK data ;/

[Frodo13.]

I didn't think everyone did? Even if you have more than one kid?

Yup. Have you ever heard of that man who has never had a job and got loads of kids? Lives in Derby. His main source of income is Child Benefits.

[WarezKid]

Yup. Have you ever heard of that man who has never had a job and got loads of kids? Lives in Derby. His main source of income is Child Benefits.

Oh ye, i readed about that!


God!, Mad!

[Virgin Mary]

lol that's funny