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British Government Commits Biggest Ever Data Breach

The British Government today admitted in the House of Commons it has committed the biggest ever data security breach when it announced, two weeks after the event that a civil servant downloaded onto two CD’s the personal data of 25 million British citizens and sent them unregistered by courier to another department 200 miles away. The discs were the “lost in the post”.

Amongst the data files were:

The names of 25 million individuals

Their date of birth

Their address

Their National Insurance Number

Full details of their earnings

Their telephone number

Their full bank account details including

Address of bank

Bank account number

Sort code number

Names of every single child in the country

Address of every single child in the country

Complete details on the parents of every single child in the country


In short, the British Government has lost all the personal data necessary for the identity theft of 25 million UK citizens. Police are said to be looking for the two discs…