How The Child Benefits Agency Data Loss May Affect You
Update:16/04/2008
It seems thankfully theres know evidence as yet these details did get into the wrong hands and no unexpected increase in the rise in Identy Fraud due to this incedent.
Sadly though theres still general increase in this type of crime so if your worried in any way at all about being a victim the 30 free trial from experian is still a great way to check your record and put right any problems there may be.
The Child Benefit Agency has lost the personal details of every parent who receives child benefit, including names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers, child benefit numbers and bank accounts. As a result, 25 million people are now vulnerable to identity fraud if the data on two discs falls into the wrong hands.
They aren’t the only ones. In a matter of weeks, data breaches have been reported by organisations as diverse as Standard Life and Next.
And even if you haven’t been caught up in one of these breaches the grim fact is recent crime statistics show the identity fraud is Britain’s fastest growing white collar crime and most of us have little idea about the risks.
So your probably now asking yourself what can you do if to protect myself from identity theft?
Well the good news is if you take a few sensible precautions you can limit your risk or minimize the impact should you fall victim to the crime.
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