10 Day Cover Up Over Unprecedented Data Protection Disaster

Computer discs that contained the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing in the post.
The data on them includes names, addresses, date of birth, National Insurance numbers and bank details of 25m people effecting 7.25m families.
This can only be described as a "catastrophic" failure; in fact words can but fail to describe the actions of HMRC staff as the computer discs were posted in standard mail. Who would do this?
Darling apologised 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".
The BBC reports that the data was sent on 18 October and senior management at HMRC were told it was missing on 8 November and the chancellor on 10 November, while the Chancellor kept quite for 10 days.
This is the same man and government that the British Tax payer has no choice but to trust to get the £40Bn back just lent to Northern Rock.

Just image what damage this lot could do with the Data on an ID card system!