The apparently notorious UK tax people have now gone and lost 25 MILLION (yes, that's MILLION) records. Apparently everyone in the UK who claims their kids on their taxes could be affected.

Seems some dolt burned the records on a couple of CDs... and when those went missing in the post, burned them to two MORE CDs - which did get there. Nice example of learning from your mistakes, that. Details.

From the BBC piece:

“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 in the NAO.”

According to ZDNet, this sort of thing has happened in that department before, though never on this scale. ZDNet Link

BBC Article