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Data Breach: Every Family With Kids in the UK
Posted on Nov 20, 2007 by Tom Fragala
This may sound hard to believe but a UK government agency lost data on every family in the UK with children under age 16. You read that right. 25 million people, 7 million familes.
Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing.
The Child Benefit data on them includes name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25m people.
MPs gasped as Mr Darling told them: "The missing information contains details of all Child Benefit recipients: records for 25 million individuals and 7.25 million families. "
Read more at the BBC.
Filed under: Data Breach, Identity Theft
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