UK's families put on fraud alert
Two computer discs holding 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 25 million people.
Chancellor Alistair Darling urged people to monitor bank accounts "for unusual activity".
More personal data lost in the UK
THE records of hundreds of thousands of adults and children in the UK have gone missing - the third loss of data about the public by a government service this year.
US cases
Consumer Data Losses: Tapes, Disks and Sticks
In 2004 the Bank of America lost unencrypted tapes with account information on 1.2 million US federal employee credit cards, including US senators.
Also in the US, a Veterans Administration computer containing information on 26 million veterans was stolen. (more)
A University of California, Berkeley laptop that contained information on more than 98,000 graduate students and others also went missing.
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