Originally Posted by Stanleymad (Post 497594)

Its emerged 6 more discs of sensitive data have been lost too

BBC NEWS | Politics | Six more data discs 'are missing'

Gets worrying by the minute:(

Originally Posted by flashytart (Post 497951)

got a letter this morning from the inland revenue its said

i am writing to make a personal apology,
oh ****** lol

Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 497967)

Credit where it's due, you can't get much more personal than a multi million computer generated letter :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by emamum23 (Post 497712)

that might hae been arguing with them that i do exist!!

Originally Posted by flashytart (Post 497951)

got a letter this morning from the inland revenue its said


i am writing to make a personal apology, A copy of some HM Revenue & customs data about famileis, including yours, who have received child benefit has been lost, The copy of the data is likely to still be on government property. The police are now conducting a search, and there is no evidence that it is in the possession of anyone else. This will not affect your child benefit payments.

The data includes you and your childs names and dates of birth, your address, your national insurance number and, where relevant, the details of the bank or building society account into which your child benefit is or was paid.

blah blah blah



then at the end it says....

i would like to offer my personal apologies for any worry or concern this data loss may cause you. And i can assure you that all efforts are being made to ensure that such a loss can never happen again.


oh ****** lol

Originally Posted by jackyalex (Post 499226)

im a D, but i dont live that far away from washington "newcastle" but i dont think they would dare hand deliver do you

Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 499227)

I would suggest that the person in charge of the fiasco is probably one of the biggest hand deliverers around :D

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 499462)

And is it true that the letter contains your NI number?

Originally Posted by [email protected] (Post 499181)

They probably are in alphabetical batches.
I find that my friends get their winter fuel payments on Mondays during November - and I am in the last 25% - so have to wait until the last Monday.

Originally Posted by kathleen_firth (Post 499780)

i think its all a lie...........
why would social security office send really important information through royal mail first class post.
something just doesnt seem right to me

Originally Posted by Cyfr (Post 499902)

In the current situation(s) I think we can make links to john majors paralysed government of 1992 onwards*


reserve right to change my mind about John Major as I'm currently reading up about him in order to give a presentation and so far he's quite a good PM.

Originally Posted by Gayle (Post 499177)

....I'm a K.

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 499918)

I have heard you called a few things but never a K, maybe you could enlighten me.
Then again its been a while since I have anyone say bad things, you must have some new friends these days :rolleyes::p:D

Originally Posted by panther (Post 500682)

well I hope none of you lot are on witness proctection!!

looks like the identitys of those people are on that disk too:eek:
Witness Protection Details Lost With Child Benefit Discs |Sky News|Politics