[Dataloss] UK Department for Work and Pensions

[Dissent]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6349041.stm

Ministers have apologised for a mix-up which led to bank and personal 
details of thousands of pensioners being sent to the wrong addresses.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said it would try to trace 
all of those affected - as many as 26,000.

[...]


A DWP spokeswoman said the letters, which were first received on 
Wednesday, were to inform customers what their weekly pension 
payments next year would be.

"Some of those customers received letters intended for someone else 
in that mailing," she said.

[...]

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