Child Benefit Records lost

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

wot a loser

Ha ha.

Government failed as per usual

Unlucky mate.

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.

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

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

There must be hundreds of backups

Rofl. at that.


Now, i gonna lose money ;(

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.

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