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Beyond Belief
Nov. 20th, 2007 10:32 pm"The missing information contains details of all Child Benefit recipients: records for 25 million individuals and 7.25 million families. "
If you were sending off the bank account and NI numbers of 25 million people for audit, would you bung it onto two unencrypted discs and send it off without recorded or registered post?
Well, you aren't running the UK.
The chancellor blamed mistakes by junior officials at HMRC, who he said had ignored security procedures when they sent information to the National Audit Office (NAO) for auditing.
Mr Darling told MPs: "Two password protected discs containing a full copy of HMRC's entire data in relation to the payment of child benefit was sent to the NAO, by HMRC's internal post system operated by the courier TNT.
The package was not recorded or registered. It appears the data has failed to reach the addressee."
Apparently, says Mr Darling, there's no evidence that the missing discs have fallen into the wrong hands. Yet.
Well, that's all right then.
If you were sending off the bank account and NI numbers of 25 million people for audit, would you bung it onto two unencrypted discs and send it off without recorded or registered post?
Well, you aren't running the UK.
The chancellor blamed mistakes by junior officials at HMRC, who he said had ignored security procedures when they sent information to the National Audit Office (NAO) for auditing.
Mr Darling told MPs: "Two password protected discs containing a full copy of HMRC's entire data in relation to the payment of child benefit was sent to the NAO, by HMRC's internal post system operated by the courier TNT.
The package was not recorded or registered. It appears the data has failed to reach the addressee."
Apparently, says Mr Darling, there's no evidence that the missing discs have fallen into the wrong hands. Yet.
Well, that's all right then.
