England - A Huge, Massive, Unforgivable Mistake'

[Maxus-MIFA9]

Saw the late night news last night in regard to the lost of 2 very important disks in England.

 

Also read in today ST at page 3 : Disks containing confidential information of 7.25 British familes get lost in post.

 

A massive security blunder in British has left almost half the country's population at the risk of identity theft and bank fraud. The risk arose after two disks containing the names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers and some cases, banking details for 25 million adults and children went missing.

 

Private records of 7.25 million families claiming child benefit - a tax-free monthly payment available to everyone with children - were on the disks.

 

Major security breach

What the disks contain:Names, addresses, birth dates, national insurance numbers and, in some cases, banking details of 25 million adults and children.

 

The Risks

Those affected now face the risk of identity theft and bank fraud.

 

 

Piew......... important document send by post !!!!!

 

Anyone here bought insurance in England ? With the records lost, you can go back to England and inform that you had bought 10 million Pound of insurance coverage for your whole family.

[Ultramega]

imagine if you find it...sell the records for 1 pound each.. bi tang liao.

[Maxus-MIFA9]

"imagine if you find it...sell the records for 1 pound each.. bi tang liao"

 

 

Wow.... like that, any chances that someone stick a "Air Mail" sticker on it and the disks landed in SG.

 

[Maxus-MIFA9]

Er........ I prefer 100 pound each and I could get 2.5 billion. Can invest in one of EPL club.

 

And when the club become famous, I could receive knighthood with a title Sir.....

[Zcold]

[Davidklt]

Can you imagine if this happened in singapore of say 750,000 records?

 

Singaporeans would want cry out for blood.

[Silver_blade]

S'porean will complaint but you will not see anything drastic..unlike in most democratic western countries.

[Sosaria]

It was mentioned in one of the first articles on this subject to appear, that the two disks were password-protected. This should provide some defense against casual hackers and petty thieves.

 

Although I think the disks will be very valuable now to whoever has it. All this hoo-hah in the news does nothing... only serves to attract the attention of more professional criminals who have greater chance of cracking the passwords.

[Sosaria]

"It's an HONEST mistake", "Now, move on..."