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Lost Benefit Records Turn Up - On Ebay!

Posted by John Bradbury on 11/21/07 in News, Security

Gordon Brown can sleep easy tonight knowing that the missing Child Benefit records have been found using cutting edge technology - Ebay!
It seems that some prankster couldn’t resist having a few giggles at the governments expense by posting the discs up for auction. The enterprising young ebayer hasn’t been identified but David Cameron was spotted […]

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HMRC Puts 7 Million Families At Risk of Identity Theft

Posted by John Bradbury on 11/20/07 in News, Security

The Home Secretary has confirmed that two discs containing the personal records of more than 7 million families in the UK have been misplaced by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
Speaking to the House of Commons today the Home Secretary said that the discs had been sent to the National Audit Office using unregistered post but […]

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