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HMRC - Data about families Not sure what you think, but on watching the news regarding the information on thousands and thousands of personal data gone missing.
I must admit I thought I've heard nothing - pheww my details are safe - but yesterday I received a letter !!!
Nooooo !!!!
The letter reads I am writing to make a personal apology. (pfft - not even a fake signature at the end)
The data which has gone missing is my and my children's names, dates of birth, addresses, national insurance number, bank details.
The letter then goes on to say check your bank statements and any letters or phone calls you receive - take details, numbers and any relevant information and report it to the relevant authority.
Okay should be we worried - yes - with that data - which is out there somewhere - someone can steal our identity.
We luckily changed our bank details and the account they did have is no longer in use, but it is still worrying.
What do you think?
Re: HMRC - Data about families Think it is worrying. They're trying to bring in all this identity stuff, like ID cards and chips in our passports to prevent immigrants and identity theft...yet they can't keep the system they've already got secure and protect people from identity theft in the most basic of ways!
Its time we had some people with brains and common sense, and a sense of what community and family is in government, instead of these muppets who just want the money and power!
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Re: HMRC - Data about families i dnt ave kids so i spose it wnt affect me but can understand ppl worryin,just shows dusnt how how poor they r at keepin our details safe-of course,even with these supposed ID cards that r meant to make evrythin all gr8 n protect us etc(yeah right,good joke)itd ave still happened,gotta be worryin for the ppl who r affected
Re: HMRC - Data about families Its not just people with kids....its a major security breach that could affect anyone!!
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Re: HMRC - Data about families first i heard im sure they sed itd just affect ppl with kids 16 or under?or has it got worse since the news first broke?
psst as u can tell i neva watch the news lol
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Re: HMRC - Data about families well i to had that letter yesterday but i still use the same bank. so well i un sure what to do im not happy tho, but i guess there is nothing i can do about it b ut sit and wait and hope npthing bad happens
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Awards: Re: HMRC - Data about families According to all the news and BBC Websites and WatchDog program it is actually only 25 million Child Benefit claimants whose data is missing. Not general benefit claimants.
On Watch Dog there were other individual cases of mess ups with the HMRC sending out personal details to wrong people - but nothing on this scale of the Child Benefit claimants.
Certainly makes you wonder what incompetent people we have running the country and running our lives!
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Re: HMRC - Data about families what dya expect chewy hun,its the government runnin the country,n its safe to say they cudnt organise (let alone run) a pee up in a brewery!
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Awards: Re: HMRC - Data about families Police have visited London rubbish tips in their hunt for missing computer discs containing personal details of 25 million people.
The two Child Benefit discs containing names, dates of birth, bank and address details went missing on 18 October.
LOL can it get any worse lol
BBC NEWS | UK | Police search tips in disc hunt
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Re: HMRC - Data about families rubbish tips?!cripes this is pathetic aint it lol
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