Another serious data leak from the Tax Office

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El Loro

HM Revenue & Customs have admitted this afternoon that they inadvertently sent personal details of other people's tax credit claims to 50,000 claimants. They have apologised but say that the leaked details are not enough for people's IDs to be stolen One woman said that she had received details of her neighbour's income and the partial details of someone else's bank account number. They will be contacting everyone involved and issuing them with the corrected award notice.

See BBC article

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Yogi19Member 10 years

Didn't something like this happen before, where some discs went missing, which contained personal information?

5/27/108:54 AM

BazMember VIP10 years

Not again!!! I wonder if anyone gets the sack... I doubt it!

5/27/109:07 AM

El LoroMember VIP10 yearsModerator

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Didn't something like this happen before, where some discs went missing, which contained personal information?

Yes it did. I know from someone who works for the Revenue that they had a huge search for the discs but they were never found. If I remember correctly, the data on the discs were encoded so unless someone could decode them they would be useless.

5/27/109:34 AM

suzybeanMember

It's not very good public relations for the Revenue.

5/27/1012:09 PM

Former Member

We've recently had notification about the NHS wanting to put all of our medical records on computer for anyone involved with your care to be able to access.
You have to opt out if you don't want it or they will opt you in. I have already told them that under no circumstances are they to create one of these records for me or my sons.
Every govt dept seems to take data protection lightly - if they were in the private sector they would be prosecuted

5/27/1012:19 PM

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