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HM Revenues and Customs has reportedly compromised customers’ personal data again – albeit not on the scale of the famous 2007 incident where it lost 25 million personal records.

In the latest incident, the Mail on Sunday reports HMRC has sent out 2,200 child benefit letters to the wrong people. Some of the letters, issued to families of children under the age of 16, are said to contain names, addresses, National Insurance and Child Benefit numbers, as well as teenagers’ names and birthdays.

Source: Mail on Sunday, 7 February 2010.