Head of HMRC Resigns ahead of commons statement today Re details of 15 MILLION child benefit claims on lost disc

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LOL NL

Just need to correct my post - its the Data Protection Act 1998.

ANd a cursary look indicates they are in breach of it.

Where do you start? Did they seriously use Royal Mail for this sort of thing and in the midst of a postal strike too? According to the BBC news site, they were sent by 'unrecorded post'....uh, yes, totally untraceable then?

"Mr Darling said the missing data was not enough to access accounts on its own but anyone who thought they had been the victim of fraud would be reimbursed by the banks."

I like the way the banks get it dumped onto them!

mumemma - for all they seem to know about it- they could have sent it by Pony Express!

Re Darling and the banks - yes he's jolly good at speaking for them isn't he - and they're all getting on so well (warning - irony alert)

I'm sure I read that they'd used internal mail (in their case - TNT).

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Basically - its everyones data who receives child benefit. I think the numbers being given out are a red-herring - its every single claimants details that have been 'mis-laid'.

Quite, Jura.

However, I do believe that there is legislation within the DPA 1998 that states if someone suffers detriment (financial, or mental distress) through the negligence of a Data Controller, they can claim compensation.

Quite, Jura.

However, I do believe that there is legislation within the DPA 1998 that states if someone suffers detriment (financial, or mental distress) through the negligence of a Data Controller, they can claim compensation.

Quite, Jura.

However, I do believe that there is legislation within the DPA 1998 that states if someone suffers detriment (financial, or mental distress) through the negligence of a Data Controller, they can claim compensation.

oooh posted in triplicate. How did that happen????

lol @ fio's link to picture

f*ckers

The whole government is causing me mental distress. Shall start working out my compensation claim now

They really better hope it's slipped down behind a desk somehere..........every stressed out mother acros the nation discovering their bank accounts have been tampered with and the identity of their PFB (and PSB's too) stolen! We will march on Whitehall and the incompetent mandarins will be rather more than on the naughty step!

It'll be at the bottom of the washing basket.

Keeping Lord Lucan company no doubt

I like the way MPs have been apologised to.
How about apologising to all the parents out there who are vigilant about keeping their PINs safe, shredding every fecking piece of addressed junk mail, spending £££ on good quality firewall/security software
I am so angry about this

Perhaps Shergar ate it NL

I agree Marina (re the apology to the MPs). And the assurance the banks will compensate any loss, hardly their fault is it .

I phoned the "helpline number". The woman there assured me that they are pretty certain that the "lost disc is in a government building". Well that's ok then

oh that is one helpline i don't want ever to work on !

i feel a bit 'meh' about this because my ID was stolen and used to attempt to fraudulently claim tax credits. my details were stolen from the HR department at work. for a government department.

it'll turn up, some driver is probably sitting on it.

southeast -

still creasing at Fio's picture link

HMRC are a bunch of incompetents. Remember this recent story about HMRC losing a CD of the data of 15,000 Standard Life customers.

One of our employees had a letter yesterday from HMRC asking what he has been up to for the past few years because they have no record of him. He now thinks that we have not been declaring him through the PAYE system and have been pocketing his deductions! We have been declaring him, of course, through HMRC's internet system.

I hope this stops them introducing the Identity Card: it is yet another example of the Government?s ineptitude when it comes to large computer projects

ha fio