Millions of bank details missing

COMPUTER disks holding sensitive personal data on 25 million people and 7.25 million families have gone missing, British Chancellor Alistair Darling has admitted to MPs.

He said the details included names, addresses, dates of birth, child benefit numbers, national insurance numbers and bank or building society account details.

Paul Gray, chairman of her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), which lost the disks containing the government’s entire child benefit database, has resigned over the affair.