Here’s a good one, it looks like an agency in the UK has lost two computer discs containing “…the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing. The Child Benefit data on them includes name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25m people. Chancellor Alistair Darling said there was no evidence the data had gone to criminals - but urged people to monitor bank accounts “for unusual activity.” The Conservatives described the incident as a “catastrophic” failure. In an emergency statement to MPs, Mr Darling apologized for what he described as an “extremely serious failure on the part of HMRC to protect sensitive personal data entrusted to it in breach of its own guidelines.” MPs gasped as Mr Darling told them: “The missing information contains details of all Child Benefit recipients: records for 25 million individuals and 7.25 million families.” So that’s a government agency we’re talking about, someone you’d normally trust (perhaps more with your personal information) than companies, since you’d think a government would take extraordinary measures to protect data on its citizens. It’s just so random there’s no way to truly protect yourself from the mistakes of the countless Dilbert’s out there failing to safeguard your data.